Months Quotes - Page 25

• But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

  Daniel Barenboim

  Pregnancy, Eye, Listening

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• I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

  Ian Botham

  Mother, Men, Law

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• I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baseball, Doubt, Three

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• Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

  Peter Singer

  Home, Army, Years

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• My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

  Daniel Nathans

  Summer, Jobs, School

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• You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.

  Tim Ferriss

  School, Doors, Names

  "The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?" by Tim Ferriss, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2007.

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• Once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live...

  Barry Goldberg

  Music, Nice, Cancer

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• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

  Salvador Dali

  Girl, Creativity, Boys

  Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974.

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  Ed Markey

  Car, Waiting, Six Months

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, May 5, 2005.

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• For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.

  William K. Stevens

  Winter, Average, Years

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• For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.

  Gustav Mahler

  Ideas, Appreciate, Desire

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• When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

  Carl Levin

  War, Impact, Years

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• Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

  Thomas Brooks

  Father, Vanity, Years

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.144

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• The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town just one step ahead of the sheriff. Is the Liberal government committed to staying here as planned throughout the month of November so that it can be held accountable in the House for its actions?... Now is it true that the government will prorogue the House so that it will not be held accountable for its shameful record.

  Stephen Harper

  Running, Government, House

  37th Parliament, 2nd Session, www.ourcommons.ca. October 20, 2003.

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• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

  Dave Eggers

  Couple, Keys, Light

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• About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.

  Hedda Hopper

  Six Months, Notify, Separating

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• Do you want to know that your new life is real? Commit yourself to a local group of saved sinners. Try to love them. Don’t just do it for three weeks. Don’t just do it for six months. Do it for years. And I think you’ll find out, and others will, too, whether or not you love God. The truth will show itself

  Mark Dever

  Real, Thinking, Years

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• France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

  Francois Hollande

  Views, United States, May

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• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

  Robert Fisk

  Father, War, Land

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

  Aaron Levie

  Talking, Years, Research

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2014

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• Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.

  Richard Branson

  Golf, Thinking, Two

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• Worst Month of the Year: February. February has only 28 days in it, which means that if you rent an apartment, you are paying for three full days you don't get. Try to avoid Februarys whenever possible.

  Steven Rubenstein

  Funny, Clever, Smart

  "A very good year, sort of - 1982" by Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Awards, Focus

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• I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Reading, Diversity, Meditation

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