“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!” TryingHardNextFunReadyHard WorkMonthsInstinctCandidatesBeing YourselfGutsApprenticeGut Instinct Author:Bill Rancic
“It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.” ThinkingWritingYearsLongSongNextCasesMonthsBunch Author:Keith Urban
“So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.” NextMonthsRight NowSixAlbumsSix Months Author:Christy Carlson Romano
“I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.” WarStatesMightNextMonthsEnglandAfghanistanSwedenPacifist Author:Bill Skarsgard
“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsYearsPersonsDifferentTodayNextLinesWeekMonthsBecomingTomorrowDrawsCommitmentExtraordinarySandNext YearMake You ThinkOrdinary LifeNext WeekThinking DifferentlyExtraordinary LifeLines In The Sand Author:Hal Elrod
“If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'” PeopleIfsTryingCountryHandsGovernmentNightThreeNextPoliticsWealthExistenceMonthsTaxesCrisisRadioQuittingGood TimesGood PeopleEvery NightNovemberStaticThree MonthsGreat CountryPredatory Author:Will Rogers
“I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.” InspirationalYearsStoriesMightTodayNextSuccessfulFiveMonthsTomorrowFive YearsNext Year Author:Jon Jones
“It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.” TryingHardUniverseNextSleepSecretFiguresMonthsGirlfriendGoing To SleepYour Girlfriend Author:Antony Garrett Lisi
“Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.” FeelsStillsTwoNextStruggleMonthsAspectWorriedRelativeTwo Months Author:Leslie Mann
“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.” IfsWaySaidIdeasSometimesWould BeRunningThreeNextWishMy OwnAbilityNumbersTalkingFiveWeekDyingFineMonthsLimitsRichesBlockDryEmbarrassmentNumber Three Author:Woody Allen
“Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.” ThinkingStoriesNextNovelMonthsCome UpCompleting Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.” HardNextStrongGrowsMonthsHard TimesQuartersSpainRecessions Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation, ... We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.” WantNextRealizingAttitudeHeardMonthsFairsElectionCleanIraqOccupationRiceSectarianism Author:Saleh al-Mutlaq
“How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!” WayDoeBookHappensThreeNextLinesSleepMonthsObscureThree Months Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.” ShowsNextWhiteMonthsGood FriendTigersShow BusinessPalacesDebut Author:David Letterman
“You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.” ThinkingWantYearsLooksSaidJobsThreeNextNumbersMinutesCarFootballMonthsTrainingSittingYears AgoSeasonsLeavingPhonesClubsManagersSoccerItalianI Want YouChairmanBenchesHere I AmThree MonthsPhone NumbersEmbassySitting On The Bench Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson
“We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.” YearsTwoGuyNextSportsProcessTeamFootballColorMonthsDepthCoachesFlyingInterviewsFootball TeamTwo MonthsHead Coaches Author:Ron Jaworski
“I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.” WritingBookEndsArtistNextLinesNew YorkMonthsSummerStoresOpeningWriting A BookJanuaryLaunchingBedding Author:Genevieve Gorder
“I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.” YearsLastsNextGrowthResultsCompanyEconomyFiveMonthsFinancialFive YearsRevenueMost AmazingPredictingPipelineLast Five YearsFinancial Results Author:Steve Ballmer
“A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.” PeopleNextPartyGroupsMonthsDebateTeaTexasPatriotPillowTea PartyCainNewts Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Arnold is now the front runner. Everyone was snickering about it a month ago, now it looks like he will be the next governor of California. He is so confident he has already chosen a body oil for the inauguration.” LooksBodyNextFrontsMonthsOilChosenCaliforniaGovernorsRunnersInauguration Author:David Letterman
“One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!” WayKindNextMonthsOne DayBusyNext Day Author:Condola Rashad
“The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.” PeopleKindNextDoorsWillingMonthsFriendsSixGood FriendSix Months Author:Jane Rule
“it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.” YearsFirstsIdeasMightNextWaitingMonthsTenSixWorriedBoredVillageGood IdeasCommitteesSix MonthsRetiredJoiningBooksellers Book:Angels Rush In Source: Angels Rush In
“I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I havent yet done. When I was younger I thought maybe Id reached that peak. But Im 86 now, and if I make it through to next month, Ill be 87. And now I know it can never be perfect, it can never be exactly what it should be, so you got to keep going further, getting better.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantShouldStillsDonePlayNextSoundPerfectMonthsIllGet BetterKeep Going Author:B. B. King
“For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.” YearsTwoDifferentLastsNextSpaceMonthsSixTrainingThirdsShipsCommandFlightStationsCategoriesSix MonthsNext YearRocketsOrbitSpace Flight Author:Chris Hadfield
“[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
“I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.” IfsYearsDoeMadeUseBigsGuyOrderNextNumbersFourCuttingReadyMonthsDirectorsNewsCamerasPreparationShootingBossCostumesGood NewsCastaway Author:Tom Hanks
“With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.” TwoRememberNightCertainNextBornDoorsChildhoodSonBabyMonthsActivityFindingsLateRedResponsibleShoesOpeningRanPairsPilotsClosetsOne NightEighteenRefrigeratorsUpstairsEarly ChildhoodLinenFoilsAluminumAluminum Foil Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie
“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.” YearsLongRememberNextTermHalfCompanyShareMonthsSixYears AgoFundamentalsSellsInvestingLong TermShockFundDozenElsewhereEmployedSix MonthsRecommendations Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“A new poll says that if the election were held today, both John Kerry and John Edwards would beat President Bush by double digit margins. The White House is so worried about this, they're now thinking of moving up the capture of Osama Bin Laden to next month.” IfsThinkingTodayMovingNextHousePresidentWhiteMonthsBeatsElectionWorriedWhite HouseCapturePollsPresident BushMarginsBin LadenOsama Bin LadenJohn KerryMoving Up Author:Jay Leno