#years

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#four #get #going #jazz #just

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now? ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#considered #i #just #now #where

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#after #finished #half #harvard #i

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#after #artist #color #expression #means

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#consequence #decade #during #firm #first

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#could #i #imagine #my own #now

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#appeared #cholera #down #end #fearful

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#childhood #ease #forgotten #joy #like

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#big city #city #companionship #early #friendship

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. ↗

— Willie Mays

#calling #had #important #into #jackie