Top Years Quotes

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put...

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential...

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the p...

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegi...

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all bud...