Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. ~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal. ~By Brian May ~
I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long. ~By Shannen Doherty ~
I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months. ~By Jack Nance ~
Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. ~By Margaret Haddix ~
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ~By Augusten Burroughs ~
I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role. ~By Gerard Butler ~
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day. ~By Diane Sawyer ~
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents. ~By Vaclav Klaus ~
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition. ~By John Doolittle ~
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish. ~By Roger Andrew Taylor ~
The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us. ~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future. ~By John Olver ~
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black. ~By Larry Rivers ~
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. ~By Alan Alda ~
Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her. ~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months. ~By Humphrey Gilbert ~
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. ~By Morgan Freeman ~
The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult. ~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team. ~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day. ~By Luke Ford ~
We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO. ~By Warren Christopher ~
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ~By Oscar Wilde ~
When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. ~By Ridley Scott ~
As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna. ~By Sandra Oh ~
Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime. ~By Robert Casey ~
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after. ~By Dabney Coleman ~
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. ~By Richard Roeper ~
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem. ~By Mathieu Kassovitz ~
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. ~By Paul Bremer ~
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema. ~By Maurice Jarre ~
Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time. ~By Richard H. Davis ~
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. ~By Alan Ladd ~
The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. ~By Max von Sydow ~
I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left. ~By Jeffrey Skilling ~
I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place. ~By Terri Windling ~
It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, "My God, how did I ever get here?" Then, about six months later, you say, "How the hell did the rest of them get here?" ~By Mike Gravel ~
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. ~By Jeffery Deaver ~
Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself. ~By Ryan White ~
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. ~By Barry Mann ~
It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him. ~By Robert Teeter ~
I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends. ~By Devon Sawa ~
I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it. ~By Johnny Weissmuller ~
I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts. ~By Neil Schon ~
The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States. ~By Herman Cain ~
When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison. ~By Max von Sydow ~
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. ~By Moira Kelly ~
But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare. ~By Eric Cantor ~
I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it. ~By Sanaa Lathan ~
I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. ~By John Hurt ~
When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus. ~By Eliza Dushku ~
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ~By John Forbes Nash, Jr. ~
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. ~By Will McDonough ~
We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids. ~By Patricia Heaton ~
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. ~By John Walker Lindh ~
For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another. ~By June Carter Cash ~
I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again. ~By John Lee Hooker ~
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is. ~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season. ~By Gil Gerard ~
It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section. ~By Mel Torme ~
More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes. ~By Paul Gillmor ~
We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box. ~By Jon Crosby ~
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities. ~By Jim Henson ~
Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years. ~By Donald Evans ~
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense. ~By Shia LaBeouf ~
I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to. ~By Eddie Slovik ~
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. ~By James Thurber ~
My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books. ~By Mathias Rust ~
Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot. ~By Stefan Edberg ~
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live. ~By Eleanor Clift ~
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. ~By Graham Nelson ~
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year. ~By Roger Moore ~
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand. ~By Ruben Studdard ~
Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes. ~By Jaclyn Smith ~
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago. ~By Dick Van Dyke ~
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. ~By Gloria Swanson ~
I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations. ~By Ron Ziegler ~
Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill. ~By Lamar Alexander ~
You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. ~By Jim Carrey ~
Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market. ~By Allyson Schwartz ~
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ~By Phyllis Diller ~
I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told. ~By Patty Hearst ~
I was on Days Of Our Lives for about three months. ~By Steve Burton ~
We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone. ~By Ryan White ~
Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us. ~By John Terry ~
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor. ~By William Bligh ~
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years. ~By Jim Cooper ~
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. ~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night. ~By Mark Spitz ~
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ~By George Grosz ~
The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full. ~By Gerry Adams ~
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. ~By Rudolph A. Marcus ~
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. ~By Joan Rivers ~
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability. ~By Sargent Shriver ~
I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time. ~By Ray Brown ~
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. ~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. ~By Sibel Edmonds ~
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. ~By Thomas E. Mann ~
I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines. ~By Rose Schneiderman ~
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