Year Quotes

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.

2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.

I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.

I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.