This Year Quotes

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow.

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.

New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

You don't really measure the year until the whole year is done. I'm sure there are some concerned people, including the coaches right now.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.

Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother.

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.

It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be able to do things you can't imagine doing today.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

My 80s were the best years of my life!

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.