If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
I just spent the last 8 months working on the second edition of 'Mastering Bitcoin,' and I couldn't even scratch the surface of all the innovation that is happening in BTC.
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.
It's the bedsit culture: people get a cat, and then, in a few months, when they move on or go travelling, they just throw the animal out. It's so discouraging.
I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait
The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
Some songs take months to get right, but 'Let Her Go' was so easy. I was no more pleased with it than any other song I'd written.
I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
We feel like we experienced probably two to three years of growth in 18 months. You couldn't probably responsibly plan for a pandemic or the amount of capacity that's needed.
Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.
It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
I worked so hard for so long, filming literally 20 hours a day nonstop for several months. It was so tough - it really broke me psychologically.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
I do cut my hair regularly because otherwise, after a few months, I wouldn't be able to see the ball any more - especially when there's a lot of rain.
After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.
Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months.
Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.
Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.
Sure, I miss some things about the stage. The thing I like is the immediacy. But then I complain, 'I gotta do the same part for six months.'
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
I don't care how big a director is; if I hear that he's miserable to work with, I'm not going to do it. I'm not gonna be in misery for two months because it's a good career move.
Filming 'Jamestown' in Budapest for six months felt like summer camp. There was a lovely cast of 16 actors, and we got along so well.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.
Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.
You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
I was born in March 1946, almost exactly 10 months after V-E Day, so I imagine my parents got carried away when peace was declared.
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.
Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.
In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.
I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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