This Year Quotes

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

[On sister Kim's pregnancy] The new year, we've got another child coming, so that's great. Kim's never had a baby, so it's going to be a beautiful blessing.

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

Theres always next year, ... except, you know, for Ray Romano.

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another 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.

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.

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

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

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.