It’s hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show’s title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I had the choice, so I spent a year in the entertainment unit, and...

A New Year’s resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

Don’t force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I’m lucky to be one of the former – but, even...

I’d much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I’d much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

I love Nigerians becouse they’re extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.

I started D.J.-ing my first year of college just for fun and to pay bills.

Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it’s the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

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.

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

You’re talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with...

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

I don’t write constantly; it’s two serials and a novel a year.

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

What good were fate and fortune anyway? If there was some sort of plan she was supposed to follow, it was unreadable to her and impossible to stick to. She was tired of fate, which...

I’m going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

In the late ’60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space...

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in ’90. We were locked in it for a year and a...

When I got out of high school, I thought, I’ll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.

When you’re unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

There’s an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent...

There’s only one cure for what’s wrong with all of us pitchers, and that’s to take a year off. Then, after you’ve gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up...

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it’s refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our...

I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have...

I think one year I was responsible for 163 screen deaths. That was a pretty good year for me, although it seems better than it actually was at a glance; 72 of those deaths were...

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo’s, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I’m finally gonna die onstage, that’s where it’s going to be!

It’s estimated that one million girls in India ‘disappear’ every year.

Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!

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.