Two Weeks Quotes - Page 9

• My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.

  Joe

  Play, Two, Lessons

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• I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'

  Eva Mozes Kor

  Morning, Doctors, Two

  "Auschwitz: the Nazis & The 'Final Solution'". Book by Laurence Rees (p. 89), 2005.

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• I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.

  Judd Apatow

  Hard Work, Thinking, Hbo

  Source: www.elle.com

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• "This is now the twelfth day of rioting in France. They have been rioting for almost two weeks. And France has still not surrendered. That's like a record.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Records, France

  "The Tonight Show", November 7, 2005.

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• Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Happiness, Vacation

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• I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?

  Tommy Lasorda

  Two, Pasta, Bread

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Player, Two

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• The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Men, Vacation

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Two, Mountain, Hiding

  "How star of the stage Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner of his own success after switching to the screen" by Marcus Dunk, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 15, 2009.

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• The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Years, Two, Week

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

  Eamon

  Two, People, Car

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• Welcome to the program. My name is Dave Letterman, and tonight I'm giving my two-week notice.

  David Letterman

  Names, Two, Giving

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• All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor.

  John Romita, Sr.

  Encouragement, Book, Artist

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• Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

  Cillian Murphy

  Names, Two, Hollywood

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• I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

  Alex Trebek

  Two, Citizens, Week

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• The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

  Owen Hart

  Fighting, Two, Japan

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• Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Two, Week

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• I think there are some things that we got accomplished in the last two weeks. Our defending was good and our offensive line took some strides, but we will look at it and analyze it so it will be a long day tomorrow.

  Les Miles

  Thinking, Lsu, Two

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• Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after I have set you free, you must bow down to it, and submit yourselves to the celestial law. You may go where you please, after two weeks from tomorrow; but, remember, that I will not hear any more of this whining.

  Brigham Young

  Husband, Law, Two

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• Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

  Lee Iacocca

  Fun, Mean, Responsibility

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• My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

  Katy Mixon

  Jobs, College, Utah

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

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• Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

  Michael Steger

  Girl, Adventure, Cities

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• There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Education, Jobs, College

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• I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Strong, Two

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.9, Fawcett

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