Week Quotes - Page 32

• Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Sharks, Years

  "The Deadliest Animal in the World" by Bill Gates, www.gatesnotes.com. April 25, 2014.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.

  Steve Aoki

  Video, Matter, Photographer

  5 Copy quote

• I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Play, Years

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

  Jamie Farr

  Eight, Trying, Together

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.

  Michel Foucault

  Weekend, Order, People

  6 Copy quote

• If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Sleep, Eye

  7 Copy quote

• Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

  Muhammad Ali

  Eye, Boys, White

  26 Copy quote

• I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

  Henny Youngman

  Wife, Luck, Lasts

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

  Pope John XXIII

  Sacred Scripture, Found, Feels

  42 Copy quote

• 55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Remote Control, Minutes

  5 Copy quote

• Patience is a particular requirement. Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair.

  Charlie W Shedd

  Might, Requirements, Hours

  12 Copy quote

• We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Two, Worry, Focus

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence.

  Bill Maher

  Successful, President, Lasts

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.

  Bernie Mac

  Brother, Cutting, Hair

  5 Copy quote

• I have a friend who's collecting unemployment insurance. This guy has never worked so hard in his life as he has to keep this thing going. He's down there every week, waiting on the lines and getting interviewed and making up all these lies about looking for jobs. If they had any idea of the effort and energy that he is expending to avoid work, I'm sure they'd give him a raise.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Jobs, Lying, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

  Jim Carrey

  Sorry, Kids, Euthanasia

  MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 12th, 2017.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Doctors, Hammers, Balls

  21 Copy quote

• I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Horse, Gun, Gambling

  22 Copy quote

• You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

  Duane Michals

  Thinking, Expression, Wind

  4 Copy quote

• Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

  Jon Stewart

  Book, Writing, Sitting

  4 Copy quote

• I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.

  Bob Newhart

  Important, Tonight, Checks

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

  Harold Wilson

  Zimbabwe, Might, Matter

  'The Times' 13 January 1966

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

  Edna Ferber

  Monday, Morning, Typewriters

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gilbert Gottfried is famously cheap. I'm impressed you're here Gilbert. You gotta buy new clothes and take a week off work just to do this. But you showed up. You tightened your belt and you came. You're like David Carradine.

  Greg Giraldo

  Clothes, Belts, Impressed

  6 Copy quote

• Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

  Elizabeth David

  Country, Next Week, Years

  Elizabeth David (1999). “French Provincial Cooking”, p.23, Penguin

  27 Copy quote

  Show source