Year Quotes

I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step.

If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises – like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s.

When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob.

As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.

In most states you can get a driver’s license when you’re sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.