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About A Year Quotes

Lines on the long wait a year can feel like.

From comedic complaints about buses that never go on schedule to memories of stints spent learning a craft, these lines capture how a year can stretch or fly by.

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.

Quotes by William Devane

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

Quotes by William Bell

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Quotes by Wendy Cope

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

Quotes by Tracey Gold

About Quotes

I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called 'The Last Elephant,' with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he...

Quotes by Tony Todd

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some...

Quotes by Tom Curren

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

Quotes by Ted Bell

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a...

Quotes by Taylor Swift

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.

Quotes by Stipe Miocic

Book Quotes

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

Quotes by Stephen Stills

Japan will help vulnerable developing nations make progress on emissions. In fact, we pledged assistance of about $16 billion over three years from 2013 and met this goal in about a year and a half.

Quotes by Shinzo Abe

I initially got a job at Disneyland through a friend who was working there. He said, 'You would make a great princess there,' and that I should audition. So I just went on a whim to audition, and I wound...

Quotes by Sarah Butler

I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I...

Quotes by Robert Forster

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to...

Quotes by Robert Ben Garant

Go Quotes

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Quotes by Red Adair

After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months are for pre-production and other things. You need a minimum of two-and-a-half months for the shooting of a...

Quotes by Rajkumar Hirani

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

Quotes by Piper Perabo

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

Quotes by Pia Zadora

I was one of the first six black kids to integrate a formerly all-white school. I remember being looked at all the time and people laughing at my hair. I was also very self-conscious about the food I had for...

Quotes by Petina Gappah

Half Quotes

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

Quotes by Patsy Cline

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the About A Year quotes page cover?
These quotes capture the feeling of stretches of time lasting roughly twelve months, from waiting for something to happen to looking back on a formative stint.
Is there a humorous quote in this collection?
Yes, one compares waiting for buses to waiting for good things generally, joking that everything worthwhile arrives all at once after a long wait.
Do any quotes describe career or training experiences?
Several do, including reflections on studying a craft for roughly a year before real progress starts to show.
Where can I find quotes about shorter time spans?
Try our half quotes if a full year feels like too long a stretch for what you're describing.
Are there related quotes about waiting in general?
Yes, browse our go quotes for more on the anticipation of something finally happening.

Read more reflections in our about quotes, or if twelve months feels like too long, try our half quotes for shorter spans of time.