Top 1200 Months Of The Year Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

I like that, to possibly be the guy to make Chip Ganassi Racing a championship team year in and year out.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

The Wyoming game in 1974, my third year as head coach. My first year, we were 7-4; the second year, we went 5-6; the third year started out 0-3-1. Some of the players got together and had a team meeting to get a few things straightened out. Starting with the Wyoming game, we won 6 straight games and won our first conference championship, the second in BYU's history. We went to the Fiesta Bowl, the first of many bowl games for the Cougars.

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

Each year is a year for you to get better, so that's what I'm trying to do.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

I did one year of college, so I was only in Lexington for one year.

It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.

The first year at Juilliard is, I think, the best. And partly why I left - I only went one year. Partly why I felt okay leaving is that the most important elements, I believe, happen in the first year. What they do is they tear down all your conceptions of acting, and they take away all your tricks that you've learned.

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger.

I hold a mini-New Year's Eve party each year with my son Ronan, and we make pigs in a blanket. They are delicious!

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.

The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.

I only ever became conscious of how hairy I was when I got to Year Six, the last year of primary school.

I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.

I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.

That year I went to Miss America, that was the first year I had competed in an adult pageant, if you could call it that. So it was zero to 60.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year.

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.

Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.

So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off quietly to prison. And for some time, days, months, a year perhaps, life has a peace-time quality, into which war-like events intrude. But when a war has been going on for a long time, life is all war, every event has the quality of war, nothing of peace remains.

When you record and tour year after year without a break, it starts to feel like you're on an assembly line.

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

I can play high-level football and have a good year, all year, and then I am ready to be a starter for United.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation [cameo?] in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

Playing a TV character for seven years is almost like when you do a play. You live, breathe, and everything else with that character 24-7 for six months or four months or whatever, and that gets very deep in your blood. When you do a TV character for seven years, that's a long time. It becomes a seminal era in your life.

Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.

That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.