What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
~By George P. Baker ~
In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
~By Majel Barrett ~
The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
~By Patrick Macnee ~
I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.
~By Christopher Darden ~
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
~By Delta Burke ~
For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
~By Nigel Dennis ~
In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.
~By Tom Felton ~
With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.
~By Dougray Scott ~
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
~By Geddy Lee ~
I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
~By Robert Browning ~
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
~By Mary MacLane ~
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
~By Franco Harris ~
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
~By John Dalton ~
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
~By Pete Seeger ~
Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
~By Brad Gilbert ~
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
~By Dennis Hopper ~
It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.
~By Brett Favre ~
Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
~By Danielle Steel ~
I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.
~By David Coverdale ~
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
~By Bill Wyman ~
But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
~By Laurie Lee ~
I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
~By Placido Domingo ~
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
~By Ralph Nader ~
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
~By George Lucas ~
I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.
~By Pete Maravich ~
Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
~By Clarence Clemons ~
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
~By James Thurber ~
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.
~By Robert Barany ~
I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.
~By Steven Seagal ~
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
~By Theodore Gericault ~
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.
~By Dawn Fraser ~
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.
~By Rob Corddry ~
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
~By Eddie Mathews ~
Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.
~By Andre Braugher ~
It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?
~By Steve Hackett ~
It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
~By William Godwin ~
Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.
~By Andre Agassi ~
When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
~By James Lipton ~
But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
~By Donald Johanson ~
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
~By James Taylor ~
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up.
~By Shelley Berman ~
Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.
~By Todd McFarlane ~
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
~By Warren Cuccurullo ~
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.
~By Robert Redford ~
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
~By Harry Houdini ~
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.
~By Brian Lumley ~
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
~By Willa Cather ~
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
~By Errol Morris ~
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
~By Toni Braxton ~
I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
~By Rick Derringer ~
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~
What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
~By Kevin Costner ~
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
~By Scott Joplin ~
I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.
~By Alan Vega ~
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."
~By Erma Bombeck ~
I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
~By Diana Ross ~
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
~By Babe Ruth ~
For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
~By David Fincher ~
I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
~By Faye Dunaway ~
My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
~By James Denton ~
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
~By J. Edgar Hoover ~
I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.
~By Kurt Loder ~
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
~By Daniel Clowes ~
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.
~By Terri Windling ~
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
~By Esther Williams ~
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
~By Bobby Darin ~
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
~By Steven Wright ~
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
~By Maxine Waters ~
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