#years

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#creatively #great #i #new #new orleans

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#build #differently #five #minutes #reputation

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#britain #caesar #five #held #hundred

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#documents #doing #i #just #most

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches. ↗

— Ken Burns

#blind #myriad #other #six #something

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years. ↗

— David Wain

#audience #cable #course #disappointment #etc

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#hated #i #know #lot #pretty

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#becoming #before #gore #i #life

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy. ↗

— Harry Browne

#american foreign policy #bad #fingers #foreign #foreign policy

A minute's success pays the failure of years. ↗

— Robert Browning

#minute #pays #success #years