300 Quotes on Months

• I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

  Author: John Zorn

• I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

  Author: Ron Ziegler

• It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Author: Darryl Zanuck

• A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.

  Author: Isoroku Yamamoto

• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

  Author: Roy Wood

• Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

  Author: Ron Wood

• In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

  Author: Ernie Wise

• I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

  Author: Terri Windling

• The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

  Author: William Wills

• The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

  Author: Treat Williams

• When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

  Author: Robbie Williams

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

  Author: Ryan White

• We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

  Author: Ryan White

• We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

  Author: Meg White

• I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

  Author: Tom Wesselmann

• We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

  Author: Henry Wells

• I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

  Author: Gene Ween

• No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

  Author: Max Weber

• I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

  Author: Amy Weber

• There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

  Author: Amy Weber

• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

  Author: Shane Warne

• 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.

  Author: Jim Walton

• I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

  Author: David Walliams

• Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

  Author: Grete Waitz

• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

  Author: Jules Verne

• I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

  Author: Wietse Venema

• At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

  Author: Tom Udall

• The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  Author: Mao Tung

• At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Author: Harry Truman

• When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.

  Author: Rachel True

• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  Author: Rachel True

• 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.

  Author: Mel Torme

• The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

  Author: James Tobin

• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

  Author: James Thurber

• 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.

  Author: James Thurber

• Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

  Author: James Thurber

• Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge.

  Author: John Thompson

• Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

  Author: Kristin Thomas

• 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.

  Author: John Terry

• There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• 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.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

  Author: Roger Taylor

• Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

  Author: James Taylor

• After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

  Author: Audrey Tautou

• Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.

  Author: William Tammeus

• I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.

  Author: David Talbot

• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  Author: Rabindranath Tagore

• 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.

  Author: Max Sydow

• 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.

  Author: Max Sydow

• All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• 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.

  Author: Ruben Studdard

• The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

  Author: Peter Straub

• It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

  Author: Clifford Stoll

• I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.

  Author: George Stephen

• I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

  Author: Peter Steele

• There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

  Author: Layne Staley

• 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.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

  Author: Scott Speedman

• You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!

  Author: Bubba Sparxxx

• I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• 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.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

  Author: Georg Solti

• We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

  Author: Jimmy Smith

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  Author: Jaclyn Smith

• We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

  Author: Bubba Smith

• For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• 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.

  Author: Eddie Slovik

• I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

  Author: Gene Siskel

• Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

  Author: Peter Singer

• We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.

  Author: Josh Silver

• I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• 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.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

  Author: George Shearing

• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

  Author: George Shaw

• 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.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

  Author: Ernest Shackleton

• I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

  Author: John Sexton

• And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

  Author: John Sexton

• You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

  Author: Bob Seger

• After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

  Author: David Sedaris

• I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

  Author: George Seaton

• When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

  Author: Ridley Scott

• I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

  Author: Peter Scott

• When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

  Author: Michael Scott

• 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.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• 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.

  Author: Neil Schon

• 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.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

  Author: Dick Schaap

• An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

  Author: May Sarton

• I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

  Author: Bob Saget

• I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

  Author: Emmy Rossum

• I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

  Author: Barney Ross

• Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

  Author: Michael Rosenbaum

• So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

  Author: Christy Romano

• My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

  Author: Ginger Rogers

• You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

  Author: Richard Roeper

• It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• 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.

  Author: Larry Rivers

• About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

  Author: Manfred Richthofen

• About two months ago I finished a gospel tour.

  Author: Cliff Richard

• Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

  Author: Sumner Redstone

• Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

  Author: Vanessa Redgrave

• I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

  Author: Satyajit Ray

• I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  Author: Jack Prelutsky

• I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

  Author: Danny Pintauro

• I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

  Author: Austin Peck

• The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now.

  Author: Timothy Pawlenty

• It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

  Author: Sara Paretsky

• The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

  Author: Michael Oxley

• Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

  Author: Tatum O'Neal

• We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

  Author: John Olver

• 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.

  Author: John Olver

• Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

  Author: Catherine O'Hara

• 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.

  Author: Sandra Oh

• So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

  Author: William Odom

• Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

  Author: Claude Nicollier

• Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

  Author: Marc Newson

• By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

  Author: John Newcombe

• I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• 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.

  Author: Graham Nelson

• It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

  Author: Andrew Natsios

• 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.

  Author: John Nash, Jr.

• I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

  Author: Jack Nance

• At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

  Author: Cillian Murphy

• The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.

  Author: Jamie Muir

• Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  Author: Nana Mouskouri

• I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

  Author: Nicholas Mosley

• The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

  Author: Joe Morton

• I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• 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.

  Author: Roger Moore

• I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  Author: David Minge

• I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

  Author: Roger Milla

• I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

  Author: Christina Milian

• I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

  Author: Mark Messier

• There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

  Author: Mark Messier

• The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

  Author: H. Mencken

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Author: Bernard Meltzer

• I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

  Author: Al McGuire

• It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.

  Author: Matthew McGrory

• Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

  Author: John McEnroe

• I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

  Author: Colleen McCullough

• If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.

  Author: John McCormack

• 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.

  Author: Brian May

• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  Author: Walter Matthau

• I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

  Author: Robert Matsui

• Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

  Author: Mary Mastrantonio

• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  Author: Ed Markey

• Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

  Author: Cindy Margolis

• 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.

  Author: Barry Mann

• I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

  Author: Tobey Maguire

• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  Author: Patrick Macnee

• Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

  Author: Arthur Machen

• I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

  Author: Adrian Lyne

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  Author: F. Lucas

• Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

  Author: Mario Lopez

• They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

  Author: Nia Long

• It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'

  Author: Nia Long

• The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months.

  Author: Justin Long

• It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

  Author: Julie London

• I was born nine months premature.

  Author: Jay London

• I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

  Author: Jonah Lomu

• We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

  Author: Dave Lombardo

• I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

  Author: John Lindh

• When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

  Author: Carl Levin

• What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

  Author: Tim Lee

• When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

  Author: Ang Lee

• 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.

  Author: Jennifer Lawrence

• 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.

  Author: Sanaa Lathan

• Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

  Author: Karl Lagerfeld

• 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.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

  Author: Stanley Kubrick

• But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

  Author: Olga Korbut

• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

  Author: Ed Koch

• 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.

  Author: Keira Knightley

• This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

  Author: Evel Knievel

• A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.

  Author: Chuck Klosterman

• 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.

  Author: Vaclav Klaus

• If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.

  Author: William King

• I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

  Author: Richard King

• This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.

  Author: Kerry King

• I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.

  Author: Lil' Kim

• It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

  Author: Jahangir Khan

• I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

  Author: Jack Kevorkian

• I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

  Author: Deborah Kerr

• When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

  Author: George Kennedy

• My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.

  Author: Thomas Keneally

• A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

  Author: Moira Kelly

• Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.

  Author: Jonathan Kellerman

• Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

  Author: Mathieu Kassovitz

• 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.

  Author: Mathieu Kassovitz

• I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

  Author: Jane Kaczmarek

• I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

  Author: Andrea Jung

• Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

  Author: Ashley Judd

• This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing.

  Author: Stephanie Jones

• Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

  Author: Mary Jones

• We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

  Author: Holly Johnson

• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  Author: Lara John

• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Author: Gertrude Jekyll

• Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

  Author: Wyclef Jean

• We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• 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.

  Author: Maurice Jarre

• Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.

  Author: Joseph Jarman

• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  Author: C. James

• Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

  Author: John Irving

• I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

  Author: Jack Irons

• After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

  Author: Jack Irons

• The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

  Author: Daniel Inouye

• I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

  Author: Guillermo Infante

• I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

  Author: Lauren Hutton

• Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

  Author: John Hutton

• I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.

  Author: William Hurt

• 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.

  Author: John Hurt

• When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

  Author: Julia Howe

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  Author: Sam Houston

• The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

  Author: Mark Hoppus

• 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.

  Author: John Hooker

• Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

  Author: Dee Hock

• I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

  Author: Paris Hilton

• By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

  Author: Betty Hill

• Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

  Author: John Hickenlooper

• The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

  Author: John Hewson

• I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

  Author: John Hewson

• Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

  Author: Herman Hesse

• Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

  Author: Eva Herzigova

• I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

  Author: Andy Hertzfeld

• I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

  Author: Arthur Hertzberg

• 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.

  Author: Jim Henson

• Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

  Author: Jim Henson

• The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

  Author: Martin Henderson

• 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.

  Author: Patricia Heaton

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