Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleister Crowley

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today...

Donna Karan

My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

Dalai Lama

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

Delmore Schwartz

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Debbie Harry

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

Debbie Harry

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

Debbie Harry

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Debbie Harry

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

Clay Aiken

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.

Albert Brooks

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

Andre Gide

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Robert Fulghum

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Thomas Hood

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

Suzanne Smith

It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.

Susan Sontag

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

Ray Liotta

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

Rick Ross

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

Tony Robbins

New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.

Simon Newcomb

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

Tom Morello

For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B

Tim Ferriss

The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

Stephen Chbosky

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

Tim Buckley

Each year is a new year.

Suzanne Collins

I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?" "No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.

Ronald Biggs

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

Tom Ford

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

Sue Grafton

A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.

Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.