Months Quotes - Page 31

• I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

  Dave Matthews

  Years, Guessing, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

  Edgar Cayce

  Lakes, Earthquakes, California

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• I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Children, Six Months

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, Years, Worry

  "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

  Edna Ferber

  Inspirational, Years, Juice

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

  Raf Simons

  Couple, Ideas, Assistants

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• I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

  Bill Simmons

  Baseball, Fun, Winning

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• Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.

  Alison Levine

  Opportunity, Views, Years

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• You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger, as saying ‘You can't get this guy to listen to anything.'

  Hank Haney

  Guy, Woods, Sean

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Baby, Hurt, Sadness

  Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Halloween, Doors, Hands

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Team, Doors, People

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• Residual income is passive income that comes in every month whether you show up or not.  It’s when you no longer get paid on your personal efforts alone, but you get paid on the efforts of hundreds or even thousands of others and on the efforts of your money!  It’s one of the keys to financial freedom and time freedom.

  Steve Fisher

  Keys, Effort, Income

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• The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

  Scott McClellan

  Country, War, Media

  "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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• Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

  Jim Rohn

  Life Changing, Book, Next Week

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• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

  Jo Nesbo

  Country, Home, Years

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• Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

  Mike Dirnt

  Thinking, Next Week, Silence

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• The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

  Aberjhani

  Prayer, Light, Gestation Period

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

  Ernst Toller

  Mean, Perception, Ends

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• I firmly believe that all we send into the lives of other does indeed come back into our own. I also believe that Christmas is that wondrous time of year when each of us renews our faith that a better world is possible. By trying to live Christmas 12 months a year, we CAN make this world a better place to live - for others and for ourselves.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Believe, Years, Trying

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• I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

  Derek Kilmer

  Order, Pounds, Saving Money

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• 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.

  Vaclav Klaus

  New York, Spring, August

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

  Anne Perry

  Couple, War, Moving

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• I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

  David Nail

  Song, Home, College

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