“The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsImportantDifferentBigsWould BeLastsGivenFunMistakeHappenedGroupsTeamKeysMessagesCompareLast YearTerrificBig Mistake Author:Tony Bennett
“I think the years leading up to 21 were a bit more fun than 21 and beyond might be.” ThinkingYearsMightFunBits Author:Christa B. Allen
“Its always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, Ive been lucky with the things Ive been asked to do.” YearsPlayFunLuckyVariety Author:Diana Quick
“It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.” YearsEnoughKidsFunSound Author:John DiMaggio
“I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.” IfsYearsReadingFunBitsCasesFiveAdultsBunchEnjoyableSigningSquat Author:Neil Gaiman
“Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on 'Manhattan Love Story,' Tuesday nights at 8:30 on ABC, because it's pretty fun so far - is 'Psych,' which I did for four or five years.” YearsStoriesJobsNightFunFiveFourJudgmentMy FavoriteLove StoryFive YearsManhattanTuesdayPsychTuesday Night Author:Kurt Fuller
“As President, I will institute a procedure in which all convicted criminals will have this brass ring will be surgically implanted into their foreheads-Americans have a right to know who they can trust. I don't care if you're 5, 6, or 7 years old, if you're a first-time offender, you're gonna go to Purgatory and it's not gonna be fun!” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsCareFunPresidentFirst TimeDon't CareCriminalsRingsI Don't CareProceduresForeheadsInstituteOffendersBrassPurgatory Author:Bob Backlund
“I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.” GivingWritingYearsMadeFunFictionEgoPressesAlter Ego Author:Woody Allen
“People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.” PeopleYearsTwoPastThreeFunWishWaitingCitiesHellFiveTiredFive YearsTwo YearsFifteenJordanAutographs Author:Michael Jordan
“Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.” YearsLittlesFunBitsFourLittle BitMarkTwentiesTiredNineThirtyFour Years Author:Sammy Sosa
“It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?” TryingYearsHumansPersonsPlayFunHuman NaturePerformancesHorseInvestingAverageScrewsSelectAverage PersonPredictability Author:Charles R. Schwab
“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.” IfsYearsChildrenEnoughFeelingsHomeWould BeCarePastJoyFunStuffParentGoalPerfectWorryFiveHonestAdultsTwentiesResponsibleOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenFive YearsIf I CouldCriticizeGood EnoughSweatSuggestionsOver The PastTwenty FiveSmall StuffSweat The Small StuffWorry LessPerfect Parents Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl
“Thats the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.” PeopleYearsSchoolPastFunSeeingHigh SchoolYears AgoExploringReunionHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Author:Jon Hurwitz
“If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year. I had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can’t wait to be back!” IfsYearsI CanShowsLastsArtistFunWaitingMusicCollectionsAwardsLast YearHonoredQualifiedIndicationSpotlightBillboardsCompilation Author:Chrissy Teigen
“Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.” MenNeedsYearsKindMeanPersonsHas BeensSelfFactsWould BeFunCan DoPerfectEatingTrainingHarderHumbleGood ManRepentancePieYou Can Do ItRepentGood PersonConceitSelf WillPerfect PersonHumble PieEating Humble Pie Author:C. S. Lewis
“By nature, I'm like a 90-year-old woman, so the whole internet and Twitter and Facebook, and all of that, I'm very new to. But, I am quite shocked at how much fun it is to be able to reach out to people, on a daily basis, and keep content out there, and how much it actually really does help promote things, in such a different way.” PeopleWayYearsDoeDifferentWholeHelpingAbleFunInternetBasesDifferent WaysReach OutShockedOld WomanTwitter And Facebook Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.” YearsMadeHomeWould BeWantedAsksFunParentLessonsBandMy FriendsInstrumentsPianoNever QuitPiano LessonPlaying Piano Author:Andrew Hollander
“I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.” WantYearsEnoughFunMorningTenPagesBunchDialogueGet UpSeventiesCreeps Author:Michael Caine
“You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksCarePainLastsAmericaFunLinesAudienceHappenedHugeScaredDon't CareI Don't CareHaving FunAwakeStayingLast YearSpectrumIntrospectiveDealing With It Author:Wes Craven
“People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.” PeopleKnowsYearsFunNaturalAnimalSpecialDangerousHavensEvolutionSurvivalSmarterSelectionDinosaursNatural SelectionDarwinism Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.” WantTryingYearsDifferentFilmFunStuffImaginationMy OwnBreakDirectorsStonesMess Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.” FeelsWritingYearsMadeSometimesCharacterBodyYoungFunBoysTenBonesHungryGet UpFiftyPoundsHopelessWeary Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I was the first son and first child. When my sister came along, well, she was two years younger, and I had to go to the golf course because my mother couldn't handle all the action going on. So I came with father to the golf course since I was a year and a half old and I spent the day with him here, and it worked in naturally. And it was fun for me being with my father, and doing things that a kid did it was great.” YearsFirstsWellsChildrenTwoKidsActionMotherCoursesFatherFunHalfSonGolfHandleTwo YearsMy SisterGolf Course Author:Arnold Palmer
“Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my favorite IRS commissioners, I think his name was Roscoe somebody, wrote that one of the most often-asked questions by taxpayers was, "How can I contribute more?" Well, I tell ya, ol' Roscoe's really been doing situps under parked cars again. I've heard a lot of people ask a lot of questions about taxes, but I never heard anybody say, "How can I, the ordinary person, send more money for no reason?"” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsWellsPersonsReasonUsedAsksNamesFunHeardAdviceCarTaxesOrdinaryMy FavoriteNo ReasonMore MoneyTaxpayersColumnsIrsOrdinary PersonYear OneCommissioners Author:Dave Barry
“I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.” WayYearsMadeStillsFilmFunWatchesAudienceLaughingImagineTheaterImagine ThatAmusing Author:Sydney Pollack
“I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.” YearsPlayKidsUsedMotherFunStarsFiveSevenNeighborhoodCentsSeven YearsGarage Author:Franny Armstrong
“I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun.” YearsStillsTwoDreamLostFunFireHappenedBrotherMonthsCaughtCardsMy BrotherApartmentAlasTwo MonthsTarotLost EverythingTarot Cards Author:Franny Armstrong
“I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.” IfsWritingTryingYearsFirstsI CanBookFunHoursDislikeChaptersSchedulesRevisionNon StopDrafting Author:Sefi Atta
“I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships.” YearsFirstsFunWaterFiveSafetyMovedClubsFive YearsSwimSchemesChampionshipFive Year OldsNational ChampionshipsWater Safety Author:Liam Tancock
“I'll work by myself for years and then I'll think it'll be fun to et one of my friends like Marshall Brickman or Doug McGrath into a room and not be alone for the writing of the thing; to have the pleasure of taking walks and get lunch together; its sort of a fun process and then I do it and then I get back on my own for a while until I feel the need to do it again.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsWritingYearsTogetherFunProcessMy OwnWalksPleasureRoomsMy FriendsGet BackLunch Author:Woody Allen
“Yeah loads of bruises and welts, usually around the hip, arse, thigh region and elbows. Elbows got knocked up big time, but it was so much fun. I hadn't done a meaty action film in seven or eight years, so it was fun to explore that aspect of storytelling again.” YearsDoneBigsActionFilmFunAspectYeahSevenEightStorytellingHipsRegionsLoadThighsElbowsBruisesAction FilmsArsesKnocked Up Author:Colin Farrell
“Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in.” YearsMayDoneSeemsFunSexSidesCoupleFitFemaleMalesIllegalBad ThingsCoinsSex WorkIllegal Things Author:Kate Bornstein
“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.” YearsHumorAgeFunnyFunAgingOld AgeFifteenOld PeopleYoung AgeFifteen YearsOlder PeopleFunny AgingYoung And OldAge And YouthInspirational AgeFifteen Years Old Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.