Years Ago Quotes - Page 11

• I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Running, Years, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

  John Ratzenberger

  Father, Hippie, Party

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• In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

  Liam Neeson

  Book, Reading, Night

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• I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Thinking, Years, Drunk

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

  Frederic Tuten

  Years, Affair, Love Affair

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived

  Pat Barker

  Running, War, Believe

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• If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jumping, Hair, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eye, Science, Years

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sight, Dna, Years

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.198, St. Martin's Press

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• Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Zero, Real, Stupid

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• The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

  Wilkie Collins

  Reading, Writing, Years

  Wilkie Collins (2014). “My Miscellanies”, p.60, The Floating Press

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• A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

  Charlaine Harris

  Years, Drink, Desks

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• In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Writing, Years

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• Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Memories, Race, Years

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• The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

  Sean Covey

  Intelligent, Years, Sound

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t you want Simi to be your family?...This is the part where you say, ‘Yes, Simi, I would like to be your family.’ ‘Cause if you don’t, then I’ll have to take my mitt back and barbecue you. Akri is still upset about the last Dark-Hunter I barbecued and that was…oh, a thousand or so years ago. He part elephant when it comes to remembering things. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Years, Elephants

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• Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Nice, Eye, Years

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe.

  Henry Miller

  Mother, Stars, Lying

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Grief, Believe

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

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• Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: "He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

  Christopher Ryan

  Mean, Years, Civilization

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• todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  School, Moon, Years

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.576, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared." (rough translation)

  Marc Levy

  Mother, Running, Years

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• The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Moving, Years, Mundane Life

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• But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

  Jodi Picoult

  Years, Drug, What If

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

  Martina Cole

  Quiet People, Filled In, Offering

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