“We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.” WayLongStillsJobsMovingGrowthPresidentHappenedMonthsPresident ObamaLong WayPrivate SectorRight DirectionMoving InLong Way To GoJob GrowthMoving In The Right Direction Author:Martin O'Malley
“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).” IfsThinkingHumansWellsMightFallHuman BeingsKnownRolesFiveHappenedMonthsLuckyMarriedWell KnownGet WellNightclubs Author:Eric McCormack
“Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsTogetherUsedGirlWinningHappenedMonthsInternetCompetitionMagazinesSeventeenAlabamaPlagiarism Author:Megan McCafferty
“But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.” KnowsWayMindMayPastGonePlayerHappenedOne ThingTeamFootballMonthsTablesBottomSoccerAnalysisLeaguePrizeMeaninglessAnother WayInadequateAugustFractionsPremier LeagueDerbyPrize Money Author:Pete Gill
“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.” MenGivingWritingYearsKindTwoShowsGuyThreePoorRecordsComedyHappenedMonthsSixDecidedSticksRadioAlbumsTwo YearsCopiesRaysAdsThree YearsBobSix MonthsGave UpOther GuysAccountingPoor Man Author:Bob Newhart
“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction” WritingFirstsMomentsEarthLastsMotherGivenCareersNovelHappenedWindMonthsWestSatisfactionEastSignificantFortyHousewifeManuscriptsLife HappensGood Earth Author:Pearl S. Buck
“I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.” WritingFoundNumbersFictionHappenedWeekMonthsMirrorsCaringSeptemberIncapableSeptember 11September 11 2001 Author:Gregory Maguire
“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
“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.” MeanLittlesHoursLosesPoorFiveHappenedMonthsHabitEatingGainsTwentiesPoundsStomachEating HabitsGood Eating Author:Mila Kunis
“You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.” YearsImportantBookEnoughWholeHappenedMonthsMuse Author:Alan Lightman
“Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.” YearsRealMomentsMightHappenedMonthsSixReal LifeFilmmakingSix Months Author:Morten Tyldum
“I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that. The movie came out about five or six months ago in America. It was Miramax in the States and Disney here [fakes falling asleep]. What happened. I love working for Disney, not Walt specifically because he couldn't be more dead, but the company is fantastic.” StatesAmericaRememberFilmFallCompanyFiveHappenedMonthsBirthSixFantasticFakeSix MonthsWaltCanalsFalling Asleep Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.” MenYearsWellsMadeTwoPlayUseBigsRealityHappensWantedRememberBornKnownFiveSeeingHappenedLandMediaEventsTvsMonthsMoonProjectsLifetimeProductionsVariousBeachThirtyTerritoryMake It HappenGoodwillThirty YearsLandingDutchMoon LandingReclamation Author:Aleksandra Mir
“('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.” MenWantThreeActorsHappenedMonthsSeasonsMadFinalsHorribleMiserableZeroPilotsAuditionsReceptionMad MenCallbacks Author:Rich Sommer
“If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.” IfsKnowsStillsMightJobsLastsCausesRecordsHappenedMonthsThousandSixProgramTragedyCongressPhonesTerroristDataFranceParisCollectionsSenatorsSix MonthsOngoingFoldsCollecting Author:Rand Paul
“I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.” SaidEyeWantedAmericaMotherFourHappenedMonthsTennisInjuryGet AwayFrustratedScholarship Author:Boris Kodjoe
“When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.” FirstsTwoStatesKidsMotherThreeFeltEasyWonderfulHappenedCrazySonMonthsMereDepartmentMy SonSecretaryWonderful ThingsAssistantsThree MonthsBreastfeedingBalancing Act Author:Susan Rice
“When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.” ThinkingFirstsSelfTurnsForeverDoubtHappenedMonthsPeriodsEightThings HappenWorriedDestructiveImpotenceSelf Destructive Author:Rod Serling
“Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.” WritingFirstsWellsMaySeemsTodayNightThreeNextSleepHappenedWeekMinutesEventsMonthsEasierExercisePleaseTenSixSticksEvery NightAwkwardOddsSix MonthsThree ThingsGoing To SleepNext WeekLife Happens Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Part of the reason I am not there sooner, is that I was not allowed to go to the United States. Now I am allowed. I am so thankful I have been given a second chance and I live there and already more has happened in six months for my career then in the last ten years.” YearsHas BeensStatesReasonLastsGivenChanceUnitedCareersUnited StatesHappenedMonthsTenSixSix MonthsSecond ChanceGiven A Second Chance Author:Shane Bunting
“"Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape.” FirstsTwoSongBreakHappenedMonthsTwo MonthsMixtapes Author:Jhene Aiko
“Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."” IfsSometimesWould BeHappenedWeekHonestMonthsCoupleCancerIllnessOver YouHonest With Yourself Author:Marianne Williamson
“What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was chemo'd and operated on and cut and poked. At first it was really horrifying and scary, and then it was just,Wow. You're in your body. This is body!” FirstsBodyCuttingHappenedMonthsCancerScaryYour BodyWow Author:Eve Ensler