Years Ago Quotes

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

We've been doing something every year. We had a rock concert a few years ago to benefit the Garden of Dreams. And then we had the mask event.

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.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.

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

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

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

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

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

The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

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

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

Ricky Hatton would knock Khan out. 5 years ago or now.

The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.