Best Good Years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.”

Thinking Years Might Would Be Voice Too Much Training Drinking Foolish Ruins Smoking Cultivating Jeopardy Inhibitions Good Years

Author:Jeanette MacDonald

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.”

Needs Years Left Praying Despair Obsessed Working It Good Years

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.”

Years Stills Age Prove Be Good Good Years

Author:Kirstie Alley

“I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.”

Men Want Inspirational Years Home Kids School Felt Emotion Singing Very Good Experiments Cycles Mature Coming Home Frank Teenage Touchstones Good Years

Author:Iggy Pop

“I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.”

Years Looks Would Be Next Winning Sports Nice Being Nice Next Year Good Years

Author:Greg Maddux

“You have really hard times and you have really good years and you have years that you can't feed your family and you have to sell cars. I gotta tell you, stealing cars is a hell of a lot more fun than selling them!”

Years Hard Fun Hell Car Sells Stealing Selling Our Family Hard Times Good Years Stealing Cars

Author:Ned Luke

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Matter Done Today Action Lying Certain Week Amount Each Day Accumulation Good Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.”

Years Stories Film Felt Walking Prepared Scripts Luxury Intimate Assassination Andrew Good Years

Author:Brad Pitt

“Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.”

“Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?”

Life Should Years Able America Lines Tables Leaving Extras Quests Expectancy Life Expectancy Good Years

Author:Dan Buettner

“Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.”

Years Five Fool Baseball Good Years

Author:Frankie Frisch

“A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.”

Years Lucky My Family Good Health Good Years

Author:Ridley Scott

“I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.”

Years Looking Forward Matured Good Years

Author:Whitney Houston

“You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.”

Years Kind Games Philosophical Good Years Bad Games Bad Years

Author:Steve Nash

“Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.”

Years Firsts Play Next Steps Football College Basketball First Love Senior Next Steps College Football Good Years

Author:Ben Roethlisberger

“One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.”

Years Progress One Thing I've Learned Nba Things I've Learned Good Years

Author:Eli Manning

“It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship”

Years Different Play Winning Team Different Things Championship Good Years

Author:Manu Ginobili

“The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.”

Ifs Years Next Difficult Baseball Consistent Difficult Things Good Years

Author:Francisco Rodriguez

“I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.”

Years Wonder Six Good Years

Author:Mike Lowell

“I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.”

People Want Giving Trying Years I Can Play Desire Games Records Environment Hero Lucky Available Decent Reasonable Spoil Delivering Good Years

Author:Warren Buffett

“That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.”

World Years Feelings Causes Comedian Staring Pleasant Crap Good Years

Author:Jon Stewart

“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?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Years Kind Two Suffering Poverty Five Impossible Ego Disease Destruction Misery Eight Dumb Uncertainty Degenerates Uranium Great Year Good Years

Author:Louis C. K.

“I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.”

Years Two Suffering Poverty Five Ego Destruction Twenties Uncertainty Good Times Two Years Good Years

Author:Louis C. K.

“I recommend hiding for a good year and having no pregnancy style. That's what I recommend. If you can do it, hide. Never leave the house.”

Ifs Years House Can Do Style Pregnancy Hiding You Can Do It Good Years

Author:Kim Kardashian

“Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.”

Years Kind Young Guy Left Player Middle Shapes Ocean Baseball League Retiring Floating Baseball Player Young Guys Adrift Good Years

Author:Michael Cera

“The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.”

People Years Home Dream Wealth Pieces Baby Buying Earning Trophies Boomers Baby Boomer Good Years Inherited Wealth

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project that everyone involved poured their heart and soul into. But we had three good years, which is, you know, three more years than most shows get.”

Knows Years Heart Soul Shows Three Involved Projects Heart And Soul Defiance Heartbreaking Good Years

Author:Julie Benz

“Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.”

Years Funny Left Beauty Ridiculous Dumb Fades Good Years Beauty Fades

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.”

Years Taxes Very Good Income Amendments Income Tax Irs Good Years

Author:Ron Paul

“I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.”

Ifs Years Shows Father Games House Winning Lost White Danger Grew Grew Up Hollywood Notion Teeth Auditions You Re Pretty Good Years White Teeth

Author:Chris Pine

“'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.”

Years Children War Home Comedy Couple Female Machines Feminist Finance Allies Factories Autonomy Wwii Wartime Oxymoron Chalk Rosie Good Years Taking Charge

Book:Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir

Source: Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir

“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”

“If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.”

Ifs Years Mean Play Winning Sports Money Majors Titles Tournaments Good Years

Author:Tiger Woods

“When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.”

Trying Years Kids Careers Appreciate Good Day Concentrating Wednesday Good Years

Author:Albert Brooks

“So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.”

“You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.”

People Knows Years Lost Know How Regret Lucky Waste Lifetime Dear Good Times Great People Lucky You Lost You Good Years

Book:The Long Road Home

Source: The Long Road Home

“There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.”

Ifs Years Made War Problem Might Wanted Perfect Our Lives Century Decades Inevitable Paradise Imperfection Bores Ignored Downfall Inattention Good Years

Book:A Memory of Light

Source: A Memory of Light

“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”

Author:Brad Paisley

“When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.”

Years Three Good Years

Author:Linda Evangelista

“I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.”

Needs Years Wells Long Stills I Can Hard Done Young Lost Careers Havens Hard Work Proud Clever Cups Fortunate Injury Very Happy Only Time Cramps Good Years

Author:Roger Federer

“You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely”

Ifs Want Years Use Left Behinds Fronts Miles Good Years

Author:Tom Osborne

“I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.”

Thinking Years Guy Five Four Player Ten Incredibles Pitching Mickey Sandy Good Years

Author:Sandy Koufax

“The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation that goes with it. But, if you're not hitting or not throwing well, or are injured, you better look for fun someplace else.”

Ifs Years Wells Looks Fun Player Having Fun Throwing Hitting Injured Pitching Adulation Good Years Feasting

Author:Dave Winfield

“We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.”

Years School Standards Missouri Good Years Bad Years

Author:DeLoss Dodds

“Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.”

Thinking Years Looks Good Years Bad Years

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.”

Knows Years Left Careers Changing My Life Good Years

Author:Jackie Chan

“The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.”

Years Water Alive Growing Tree Dry Staying Staying Alive Good Years

Book:The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

Source: The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.”

Should Years Reason Reason Why No Reason Great Depression Good Years

Author:Alfred P. Sloan

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