I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.