#year

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#ascribed #fifty #forces #given #gods

I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#celebrating #i #show #show business #year

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#first #first time #former #i #lover

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#acting school #am #being #bird #i

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#always #am #fifteen #i #i am

I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill. ↗

— Dan Benishek

#companies #company #cost #deduct #drill

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like. ↗

— Rob Paulsen

#cares #fifty #greatest #greatest thing #i

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#been #down #downtown #following #four

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? ↗

— Rene Cassin

#camps #could #extermination #form #given

My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now! ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#bad #been #coming #dragged #each