I haven’t changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. – Angela Carter
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years. – Ivan Lendl
My favorite books are actually very complicated – ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, ‘Ulysses’. – James Patterson
When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious ‘oooh oooh’ girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I’ve learned over the years that that’s not so attractive, so I’ve censored that. – Claire Danes
Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches. – Arthur Levitt
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. – Bobby Fischer
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn’t really into books. – Jamie Campbell Bower
Female performers have been doing this for years – pushing the envelope about sexuality – and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. – Adam Lambert
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. – Alan Dundes
I’ve known for years that resentments don’t hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us. – Anne Lamott
A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second. – Ahmed Zewail
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist. – John Burroughs
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn’t be able to throw a ball because they’d be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years. – Jack LaLanne
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. – Alice Walker
