“To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.” PeopleShouldChildrenLittlesHardBitsHard WorkMonthsLittle BitFundRetirementEach Month Author:William Hague
“Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.” PeopleIfsLongMadeRealPlayStuffInterestActingCareersMonthsSixLong TimePhonesQuittingEstatesSix MonthsPhone CallsI Quit Author:Kurt Fuller
“One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.” PeopleIfsDonePlayProblemKnownMonthsSixResearchHarmSurvivorSix MonthsSurveysRouletteRussian Roulette Author:Thomas Sowell
“[My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.” PeopleHumansCountryPlayCareNextSonMonthsRepublicanDiedDemocratHuman LifeMy SonIdolsAmerican Idol Author:Cindy Sheehan
“Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.” PeopleYearsLongTwoThreeWinningMonthsTwentiesExcitedWinnerThirtyThree YearsThirty YearsThree Months Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
“My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.” PeopleFirstsMadeHomeJobsHouseStrongMonthsCoupleTerribleLonelyImpressionNursingRetrospectResidentsLonely PeopleSo LonelyNursing HomeOld Houses Author:Kim Edwards
“I don't believe that less fortunate people should have to wait until a movie is released on public TV for free, while richer people get to see it months in advance.” PeopleShouldBelieveWaitingTvsMonthsShould HaveDon't BelieveFortunateLess Fortunate Author:Lexi Alexander
“December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.” PeopleFeelsSeemsDifficultLossMonthsInsomniaDecemberMedicationAll Alone Author:Max Lucado
“There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.” PeopleWantWritingTwoPlayNightSongChallengesRecordsFiveMonthsRadioFantasticComposerSaturdaySaturday NightTwo Months Author:Robert Wyatt
“When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantShouldYearsHomeSufferingGoneMonthsMarkStrangerNineComing HomeDo You KnowClosestNine MonthsEstrangement Author:Sylvester Stallone
“... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.” PeopleArtForgetMonthsSixSix MonthsForget You Author:Gloria Steinem
“This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year” PeopleYearsAmericaSexMonthsBattle Author:Gail Collins
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.” PeopleIfsWritingLooksImportantEndsHandsWantedEarthLiteratureExistenceStruggleFailingExampleMonthsImportant ThingsHungerHungryPlentyBehaveParadoxLeisure Author:Stig Dagerman
“In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.” PeopleWellsSaidTwoStatesRealityAmericaPoliticalPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeUnitedPartyHistoryUnited StatesDemocracyIssuesHuman NaturePolicyHealthMonthsMajorsEthicsConstitutionElectionStrategyUnityCampaignsIdeologyVotingSpokesPolitePolitical PartiesCivilityObamacareTwo MonthsDismay2012 ElectionAca Author:John McCain
“Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsMindDifferentOpinionClassKnowingEffectsMonthsRepublicanContactJournalismThings To DoShadeFanaticsAnarchistReformersCrankLiving MoreMonths Of The Year Author:Rheta Childe Dorr
“When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?” PeopleWantYearsRememberAsksFiveMonthsTravelSixEatingAskingHungryEveningAsk MeFive YearsDishesRecipesSix Months Author:Paula Wolfert
“Fashion is not like the movie business, where you can have two great projects in a row and then say, "You know what? I'm going to take off eight months." What am I going to tell people? Wear last year's clothes?” PeopleKnowsYearsTwoLastsFashionMonthsProjectsClothesEightLast YearMovie Business Author:Michael Kors
“It's funny, people were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie, and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered, knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsEndsLeftFeltStuffKnowingMonthsAskingTwilightBewilderedFunny People Author:Robert Pattinson
“[On her seven-month-old son:] When people see me carrying him in the street they think I'm being attacked by a short, bald man. But it's just me with my little fat child.” PeopleThinkingMenChildrenLittlesStreetsSonMonthsSevenFatsSeven MonthsBald Man Author:Elizabeth Hurley
“The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.” PeopleYearsCharacterHomePerfectDoorsMonthsIndustryComfortCivilizationRepublicanHighestIdealsLaborClimateSecureFuelEtcPermitClothingsShelterOhio Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.” PeopleMenWorldWayFirstsHumansStillsWarRememberNationsVoiceHoursHuman BeingsSilenceMillionsMinutesMankindMonthsHundredSilentOne WayWar Of The WorldsSpokesOld ManRemember WhenBattlefieldsEighteenNineteenVoice Of GodFirst World WarBreakfast Of ChampionsArmisticeArmistice DayEleventh Hour Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.” PeopleKnowsChildrenEndsUsedPoliticsCommunityPoorClassTakenTroubleMonthsMirrorsBillsInvestmentUsed To BePoor PeopleSegregationSortingRacial Segregation Author:Barack Obama
“We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensPeaceMonthsConflictReachingReach OutFar AwayReluctant Author:Tony Abbott
“When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.” PeopleYearsStillsPlaySongMonthsCoupleFairsSevenWeekendNow And ThenFestivalsTouringGigsDiggingLouisianaSeven MonthsDigging Deep Author:Hunter Hayes
“There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.” PeopleNextAbilityCasesMonthsKingsSkillsDiversityProgramOpeningVarietyRangeAcquireFascinatedPhysiciansPathology Author:Samuel Wilson
“Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.” PeopleHardJobsMovingActorsResultsMonthsCoupleDirectorsResponsibleHard ThingsChunksPedestalDarts Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.” PeopleDifferentAbleJobsMovingLove IsGroupsMonthsSixBenefitsProfessionBoredDifferent ThingsSix MonthsThings Change Author:Jeremy Irons
“I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.” PeopleWritingTwoJoySongMinutesMonthsCompareEngagingTwo Months Author:Halsey
“A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.” PeopleThreeStrangeMonthsForgottenAlbumsThree MonthsStrange Days Author:Matt Smith
“It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.” PeopleMightRunningFoundEasyProcessUnderstandingSoundWeekCrazyMaterialsMonthsDirectorsConflictPhotographyShotsFemaleImportanceStorytellingFilmmakerZoneClimbingAfghanistanHonoredLaddersCollectingArrivalsJakeClimbing Up Author:Pietra Brettkelly
“People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.” PeopleThinkingMonthsBandSixBarsPianoSix Months Author:Billy Joel
“I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMindDifferentPlayGivenDoubtFourWeekMonthsStrongerNo DoubtFulfilling Author:Al Pacino
“I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.” PeopleHumansAbleWantedCultureHuman BeingsGroupsMonthsSixJokesResearchStructureAtmosphereDirtySix MonthsDirty Jokes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.” PeopleIfsLooksBitsWhitePiecesOne ThingPaintingMonthsRoundsPreservesRelyRemoveHalfwayDisturbedGlovesWearing White Author:Banksy
“George: Why've you had a grudge against your brother for 15 years? Benny: We Lopezes are a proud people... George: You have a birthday lunch at Denny's every month. We're not that proud!” PeopleYearsHumorFunnyBrotherMonthsProudLunchGrudgeYour Brother Author:George Lopez
“AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.” PeopleYearsFirstsTeamMonthsEmployeeAirbnb Author:Sam Altman
“The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.” PeopleYearsFirstsProductsMonthsCrucial Author:Emmett Shear
“Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.” PeopleIfsTeacherMonthsLocalsRestaurantsHotel Author:Rita Gelman
“It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience of past few months, I can say that we have removed that gloom from the minds of the people.” PeopleWantYearsMindI CanPastUsedMotivationHurtMonthsIndiaGloomHurt Me Author:Narendra Modi
“'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!” PeopleLongTogetherBabyMonthsProjectsListsNineClientsMy BabyNine Months Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.” PeoplePersonsLongSoulEnoughBodyAbleWeekMonthsMeant To BeSingle PersonWere Meant To BeDumped Author:David Grossman
“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.” PeopleMindLittlesKidsWaitingChangeActingTalkingCreativeFourMinutesMonthsSixCoachesQuittingLeagueCoachingSix MonthsJuiceGreat TimesLittle LeagueTalking About MeCreative Juices Author:James Caan
“I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.” PeopleReasonThreeLeftCollegeMonthsIllVegetablesThree Months Author:Adam Ant
“And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.” PeopleIfsBelieveDoeMonthsEnormousComing OutSwingsPollsOne DirectionElectorate Author:Jim Bolger
“Every single job I do. It sounds goofy but I did a music video for Fergie. I was in full on tattoos, ponytail, but it's like even things like that they help other people to see you in a different light. They give me opportunities. I try and change the image with every job that I can, it's just hard when you work on a TV show and you work so many months and trying to get away from that.” PeopleGivingTryingI CanDifferentHardHelpingShowsLightJobsOpportunitySoundTvsMonthsGive MeHelping OthersVideoGet AwayTv ShowsTattooGoofyPonytails Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.” PeopleTurnsQualitySeeingMonthsCommitmentDignityExtrasSundayMarchAfternoonBloodyNo MoneyOutreachDerry Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I think the biggest shift is the way people look at and have access to fashion. It's already old the minute you've seen it, and we've already moved on. Fashion has become very in and out. Back in the days when I started, you would wait for Vogue to come out, and that is where you would see what people wore that month. Now we are looking at what someone is wearing this second.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksWaitingMinutesFashionMonthsMovedAccessVogueMoved On Author:Matthew Williamson
“There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might make that are sort of on assignment for television that turn around in three to six months. Then the margin can be much be better for you because you're not spending three-and-a-half years on it. So I think if you're doing documentary films, that's sort of the way to look at it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayYearsLooksMightFilmTurnsThreeHalfTelevisionMonthsSixLaborInvestmentSpendingMaking MoneyDocumentariesSix MonthsMarginsAssignmentsHalf A YearDocumentary Films Author:Liz Garbus
“Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveHomeTodayGenerationsMonthsBirdYears AgoBlueDisappointmentFiftyEntitledDoomedCagesOur Generation Author:George Jonas
“It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.” PeopleShouldMayHardSoundVoiceDoubtExpressionMonthsCrashRecessionsStock Price Author:John Kenneth Galbraith