Last Year Quotes - Page 2

• Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Writing, Years

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• I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Years, Office

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• Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

  Bobby Jindal

  Rhode Island, Islands, Years

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• I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

  Diablo Cody

  Children, Son, Years

  "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film (Q&A)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

  Sandra Bullock

  Failure, Moving, Thinking

  "Sandra Bullock: My mother raised me not to depend on a man for anything". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.express.co.uk. October 12, 2013.

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• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  Bear Bryant

  Technology, Texas, Lost Ones

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• Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.

  Alton Brown

  Years, Lasts, Heat

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• Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

  Garth Brooks

  Team, Kids, Years

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• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Cutting, Science, Men

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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• A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

  Elayne Boosler

  Years, Long, Pages

  "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  Samantha Bee

  Gambling, Years, People

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• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  Brooks Atkinson

  New Year, Memories, Holiday

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• Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Winning

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• I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

  Phil Collins

  Years, Hotel Lobby, Half

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• 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.

  Roger Daltrey

  Thinking, Years, Suffering

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• We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

  Jasmine Guy

  Years, Way, Lasts

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• Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Stuff

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

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• But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Feelings, Lasts

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• Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Team, Adversity

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Blow, Thinking

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

  Minnie Driver

  Years, Exception To The Rule, Dating

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• I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Fun, Son, Talking

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• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  Larry David

  Army, Years, Class

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• Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

  Kirstie Alley

  Lying, Years, Tabloids

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