Top 1200 Two Years Ago Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

Couple years ago I was No. 7 and I ended up top. So I kind of like the position that I'm at right now. It's hot.

I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.

Sometimes I feel like I'm being watched, but then I remember that my show was canceled three years ago.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

In my industry, a shirt and a shoe are still made the exact same way they were 80 years ago.

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don't follow fashion.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.

If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last sixteen years; or the last fifty years of life, doesn't mean anything... All that matters is: What are you going to do, right now?

Gabriel Diani has been my friend and collaborator for 14 years. He and Etta Devine are two of my favorite people and two of my favorite creative minds.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.

Bejoy Nambiar had offered me 'Shaitaan' some years ago. But I wasn't confident about my Hindi.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

I tried to change my style a few years ago because people didn't like the over-the-top thing.

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

I think the terrorism watch list in the United States went over a million people some years ago.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'

I woke up in my apartment one day, about seven years ago and I thought, I'll do the Knievel rocket jump.'

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least - sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family.

The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.

Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling into that of "writing," the major distinction between the two to me being that the former gives one the facts, but the latter tries to recreate the sensation and complexities of life within the fluidity of consciousness and experience. As far as I'm concerned, that's really all I've been trying to do formally for the past decade or more with comics, and it's certainly time-consuming, since it has to be done with drawings, not words.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

I'm slightly obsessed with Moomins. They were my specialist subject on BBC's 'Celebrity Mastermind' a few years ago!

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I really love 'Broad City' and Lena Dunham's 'Girls,' which I missed when it was first on years ago.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.