For about a year, I just didn’t know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

I played bass for a year, but I wasn’t getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

I feel like I’ve matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

It’s always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That’s something we missed last year. We’d get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do ‘Revelations,’ you do ‘Revelations.’

It’s nice to get any awards, whether it’s lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on...

When people say to me don’t the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don’t realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a...

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm – so I did the same thing.

We’re never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

When you have one idea per year, it’s already a miracle!

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It’s a nod to the longevity of...

in every 1st October we Nigerians helps very few of us celebrate there independence, very. soon. we will celebrate our own.

Whether you’re earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it’s very important to protect your credit rating.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger’s that year.

One volcano puts out more toxic gases – one volcano – than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this ‘climate change,’ and when you look at the regular climate change...

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn’t take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

When ‘Avatar’ came out, we were out non-stop for a year and a half doing red carpet events. I had a stylist who helped me, but it was really hard, and we couldn’t find many...

If you’ve ever noticed, beauty pageants are a lot like county fairs. The farmers show the cows the same way. They walk their prized Jersey cow across a stage in front of an audience with...

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

It’s like I’m trying to keep the bad away with one hand while holding on to the good with the other, and it just doesn’t work. It’s stupid. I need both hands. So I guess...

Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one...

Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before...

MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it’s...

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time...

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

If I grew an inch a day, in 365 days I’d be one year tall. I’d be over three basketball hoops high, but I’d still only be able to palm a Sunday once a year.

I started out in theater, and then I got a job on a soap in New York. With a soap opera, its every day, all year long – there’s no downtime, and you’re shooting a...

I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was –...

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

It’s nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, ‘The Wine Advocate.’ There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from...

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out on top.

I don’t need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can’t live without it. I’d be totally cool without tennis.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

It’s easy for me to say that now, now I’m a father, I’ve got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I’m a different person. Well, I’m still the same person, but I’m different.

I think if you go beyond a year – if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that – that we could have a negative reaction...

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a...

If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.

I’ve put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for...

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a ‘Song of the Year’ award.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to...

It’s always difficult when you’re on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

You avoid the hype while you’re working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.