“What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.” PeopleWantIdeasEndsMomentsMightHappensNightNextTermMorningNovelFocusCarMonthsWalkingSixMassCookingEightCriticalDrivingThemeVagueCritical MassVague Ideas Author:Anna Quindlen
“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.” PeopleWorldYearsKindMadeIdeasEndsMatterTodayFatherFrontsMonthsOfficeSixComputerToolsProductionsStealingDataSix MonthsObsoleteInputPatentsLawsuitWasting Money Author:Paul Laffoley
“Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a lot to do in Long Island..." but you know what, if Jim Gaffigan was here, tickets would be gone a month ago, if Chelsea Handler was at the Barclays Center, gone.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsLongReasonSeemsWould BeGoneMonthsExcuseHardestIslandsWhat IfTicketsChelseaLong Island Author:Jay Mohr
“I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.” PeopleMindHappensAbleFacesTurnsSpeakBehindsOpinionWallMonthsInternetResponsibleReactionsBeing ResponsibleAnonymityTurn OffCyberGridsSpeak Your Mind Author:John Larroquette
“It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.” PeopleStatesThreeNextHousePresidentPartyWonderStupidMonthsKingsElectionDemocraticBarackPresidentialSecretarySpeculationDemocratic PartyPresident Barack ObamaThree MonthsPresidential Election Author:Bill Ayers
“When I think about work-life balance, I don't imagine it as a perfect day where I got to spend the exact right amount of time having an impact at work and snuggling with my kids at home. I never achieve that. But over the course of a month, or a quarter, or a year, I try to make time for the people and experiences I value.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsHomeKidsValuesCoursesPerfectImagineAchieveMonthsAmountBalanceImpactQuartersWork Life BalanceMaking TimeLife BalancePerfect DaysSnuggling Author:Jane Park
“People were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie [of The Twilight Saga], 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.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsEndsLeftFeltStuffKnowingMonthsAskingTwilightBewilderedSaga Author:Robert Pattinson
“I think Donald Trump is not going to be impeached [in a ] month. Let's not close out possibilities.I do think that what's happening is great and that people are active and people are just involved in the democratic process.” PeopleThinkingProcessPossibilityMonthsTrumpInvolvedHappeningsDemocraticActiveDemocratic Process Author:Mark Shields
“I would point out is that most of the change over the past 5,000 years has been arithmetic, and it now logarithmic. Digitization, the whole Moore's law thing where it doubles every 18 months - that is a speed that is faster than most people are used to.” PeopleYearsHas BeensWholePastLawUsedMonthsSpeedFasterOver The PastArithmeticMoore's Law Author:Ken Moelis
“When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.” PeopleWellsCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFiveFourMonthsTrumpWalkingPercentOur CountryCaliforniaRanSouthernWeekendRidingCountyHampshireNew HampshireSouthern CaliforniaCalifornians Author:Pat Buchanan
“I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison on any given day, but also all those who are in jail, on probation or parole, as well as all those who are just months away from being locked up again because they are unable to find work or housing due to their criminal record.” PeopleThinkingWellsImportantGivenRecordsMonthsMassPrisonDuesCriminalsJailLockedHousingLocked UpIncarcerationParoleMass IncarcerationProbation Author:Michelle Alexander
“I truly do live my life a day at a time. When I talk to people trying to get through anything, it's a day at a time. If people stop to think, "It's going to be potentially three years and 10 months for the new president to come in," that's a very long time and that can have major effects on somebody's psyche. But if you take this thing a day at a time, and break it down a little differently, and do what you can do today, it will make it easier for people to move forward, and it makes it easier for me to move forward.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingYearsLittlesLongTodayMovingThreePresidentCan DoBreakEffectsMonthsEasierMajorsLong TimeMoving ForwardThree YearsLiving My Life Author:Marty Walsh
“Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidBigsActionForeverStreetsMovementWallMonthsImpactEnormousParksTacticsGreat SuccessBig Impact Author:Noam Chomsky
“One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.” PeopleTryingFirstsWellsLittlesMightWould BeSchoolNextJesusSpeakBitsSoundRealizingAnswersClearOne ThingMonthsLittle BitAddSundayZeroNutsDeckSunday SchoolEtch A Sketch Author:Bob Goff
“First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStillsWinningFourMonthsTrumpShockOver ItExpectingShellsGet Over Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.” PeopleWayMayTogetherLastsRealizingInterestingEmotionTeamMonthsPressureFolksChiefsAttachmentStaffPresidencyChief Of Staff Author:Barack Obama
“I was overwhelmed by the number of calls we got from people offering to rent us houses, to take us out to dinner, to drive us around house hunting. Everyone was just indescribably kind in Havaii. Finally we moved into a house offered to us for an incredible $125 a month by a man who feels that the separation of church and state is a valid constitutional issue which should be fought for.” PeopleMenFeelsShouldKindStatesHouseChurchNumbersIssuesMonthsMovedIncrediblesDinnerSeparationHuntingOfferingOverwhelmedChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And State Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFeelingsSchoolTurnsWeekHugeLike YouMonthsSizeBitesMaking ChangesWednesdayThursdaySmall Changes Author:Hoda Kotb
“I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.” PeopleRecordsMonthsSixUnderstoodSix Months Author:Avril Lavigne
“One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.” PeopleIfsCharacterUseGroupsTvsLike YouMonthsWeaknessStrength And Weakness Author:Denis Leary
“November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.” PeopleWorldGivingDoneTogetherYoungPoliticalPlanetsMonthsPoliticianHip HopHipsHopsCelebrationNationalityNovemberPolitical Systems Author:Afrika Bambaataa
“What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.” PeopleYearsHumansThreeHuman BeingsMonthsAgentsSlipsNew ThingsThree MonthsDownloads Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!” PeopleFirstsLastsAmericaComedyMonthsFirst TimeAverageFatsHeyPizzaOverweight Author:Jay Leno
“Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.” PeopleYearsFirstsLastsMonthsElectionVotingPollsFree Elections Author:John M. McHugh
“Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.” PeopleNextEnjoyAbilityMonthsOrdinaryDecadesStealingRelatedAnxiousDreadNext DayLooking ForwardOrdinary Life Author:Joyce Meyer
“New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsNew YorkTearsMonthsHealthyTornTorn Apart Author:Moby
“We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.” PeopleLastsAudienceWeekMonthsLowsFamiliarBitesPhasesEconomistDutchAuctions Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.” PeopleWayShowsDreamRegretMonthsSevenMy WayComedianTonightSeven Months Author:Conan O'Brien
“I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.” PeopleHomePayMonthsBalanceEightCreditSavedCardsSavingFundFrustratedEmergenciesPaymentSavingsCredit Card Author:Suze Orman
“My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.” PeopleIfsShouldFactsTogetherGoalHappenedAwarenessMonthsRedRaisesCancerGreat ThingsBreastsFlagsAssociatesOctoberNovemberBreast CancerDiabetesRed Flags Author:Danica Patrick