Top 1200 Two Years Ago Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

My signature is the one that Hyun Joong hyung made for me five years ago, but I’m still using it.

I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'

Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.

There have always been two theories about inequality. One is that it reflects just deserts. The other is that there are large elements of exploitation and inequality of opportunities. The evidence is overwhelmingly that the increase in inequality is associated with those negative factors. If it were all social contribution, then when the top did better, they would be contributing to everybody's well-being. That trickle-down hasn't happened. We've seen median income, people in the middle, actually worse off than they were 25 years ago.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.

There's always something that's going to kill us all. A few years ago, tomatoes were going to kill us and a few years before that it was spinach. The FDA is run by a 7-year-old kid that hates vegetables!

The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.

Look, Iraq and Iran would fight for years and years and years, it went on forever. They were almost identical strengths, and the line would never move, right? Then they would go home and rest for ten years and then they would start fighting and they'd rest, that was it. We knocked out one of those two pegs, and so now Iran is taking over.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.

Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we'd raise it one month a year for 25 years when we're all living longer, and living better lives.

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm more of a queen." A vein in his temple began to throb, and she grew bolder, the sense of power emanating from the mark on her chest filing her with the mettle she'd lost after the break-in two years ago. Lowering her voice to a tense whisper, she nipped his earlobe. "Checkmate.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

When I first studied Billie Holiday's life story years ago, I admit that I was quite judgmental.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

I found wrestling when I was 11 years old. About two years later, I convinced my mom to let me rent my first UFC tape. I was fascinated by the sport.

President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.

I left Brazil at 17 years old in order to give my family a better life, but when I returned home two years later, I was completely disillusioned with football.

I have played against (Michel) Platini, (Diego) Maradona, (Johan) Cruyff and played with George Best — a lot of big names, but none of them has been able to do what Messi does. Two years ago I said that the best player I played against was Maradona and the best player I have played with was Bestie. But I can now say I have never seen a player as good as Messi. He’s in a league of his own.

[The kidnapping] happened 14 years ago, and I didn't talk about it for ten years because I was too embarrassed. I was too scared. I thought, People are gonna judge me, they're gonna pity me, and I don't want that. Because I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor.

Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.

When I became vegan 5 years ago, it was truly eye opening. I think it's all about perspective, really.

If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

I don’t like keeping her in the dark,” Jace said. “We’ll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?” Jace gave him a look. “Two weeks ago you were dead.” “Well, I wasn’t suggesting two weeks,” said Sebastian. “That would be insane.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in denial about this for many years. At school I was highly lauded as having the potential to write one day, but being a typically rebellious and misguided teenager I opted to study art. Ironically language has pervaded all the work I have done - from my first forays into an art practice many years ago to my work with typography and book design.

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

I did a show called 'Andaz' many years ago which was produced by Himesh Reshammiya.

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.

I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

Chris Corso became a friend several years ago, I've always loved his restaurants.

Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for... ... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.