Week Quotes - Page 7

• The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

  Voltaire

  Suicide, Men, Today

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.2902, e-artnow

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• No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

  Roger Kahn

  Party, Events, Three

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• I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

  Jim Davis

  Able, Stuff, Nine

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• I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.

  Tim O'Brien

  Writing, Hands, Trying

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• Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

  Steve Forbes

  Oil, Dollars, Saws

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

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• I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

  Chick Corea

  Night, Men, Play

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• I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Book, Writing

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• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  Wade Davis

  Lonely, Children, Fate

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• During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Games, Two

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• We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

  Tom Allen

  Iraq, Spending, Billions

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• I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

  Tony Parsons

  Healthy, Four, Hours

  "What I see in the mirror: Tony Parsons" by Tony Parsons, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2010.

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• Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.

  Mark Webber

  Thinking, Two, Racing

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• You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

  Brian McDermott

  Doe, Demon, Coaches

  "Brian McDermott has retained his beliefs despite dark times at Leeds" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

  Craig Thompson

  Utah, Games, Answers

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• It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

  Gareth Roberts

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, People, Want

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.447, Penguin

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• But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

  Jack London

  Iron, Mad, Long

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.

  Julian Huxley

  Two, World, Leisure

  "Prof. Huxley Predicts 2-Day Working Week". The New York Times (p. 42), November 17, 1930.

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• Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

  Robert Altman

  Girl, Cancer, Divorce

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

  John Bright

  Men, Rights, People

  Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.

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• The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Baby, Loneliness, Men

  Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

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• Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Years, Done, Months

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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• I'm all for sex. Seven nights a week. Days, too.

  Steve Allen

  Sex, Night, Seven

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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• What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.

  James Beard

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Thinking, Alcohol

  Source: www.billboard.com

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