Top 1200 Two Years Ago Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

You never want your greatest work to be 10 years ago.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower.

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous with my time over the years with young writers. I've given them my email and said if you need someone to talk to, I've been through it.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Galvanized plumbing was used years ago. Now we use copper.

I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.

Over the last few years they have done a superb job in their fight against al-Qaida. As you may recall, our embassy in Jedda (in Saudi Arabia) was overrun some four years ago and a number of foreign workers went home because of violence against them.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but now records aren't what they were then - and so it doesn't actually feel very good to make a record of songs.

What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.

I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.

We've had the facial recognition technology out for use for over two-and-a-half years now, and in those two-and-a-half years, we've never had any reported misuse of law enforcement using the facial recognition technology.

I think the traveling is what drew me into 'The Amazing Race' years ago.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.