James May Quotes

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

I hate New Year's Eve.

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Each year is a new year.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

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

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Even if you have a difficult season, you still believe the following year will be better and a good one.

I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward.

It's always exciting to get back out there with the teammates and start a new year and get on the field.

I definitely feel that 2018 is my year.

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

This bright new year is given me

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old.