Weekend Quotes - Page 31

• Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Friday, Monday, Night

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• Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Monday, Autumn, Men

  "The Autumn of the Patriarch". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1975.

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• In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

  Dennis Miller

  Technology, Views, Viruses

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• Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Friends, Giving Up

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• Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

  Kevin Rose

  Business, Believe, Night

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• Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

  Robert Redford

  Inspire, Mind, Provoking

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

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• At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

  J. D. Greear

  People, Empowering, Important

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• There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Thinking, Sky

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• President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden.

  Jay Leno

  Golf, House, President

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• I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

  Mark Rydell

  Long, Competition, Known

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• A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

  Penelope Trunk

  Successful, Creating, Looks

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• A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.

  Lorrie Moore

  Jobs, Years, Mad

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jul 24, 2014

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• If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

  Glen Mazzara

  Running, Needs, Lasts

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• Over the weekend it came out that the U.S. has been listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone since 2002. At this point, I feel like the only world leader our government DOESN'T listen to is President Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Government, Leader, Listening

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• Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Years, People, Week

  Twitter post from Apr 07, 2017

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• The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

  John Galsworthy

  Strong, Sex, Cycling

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• A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

  Robert M. Gates

  Crazy, Book, Reading

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• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Nice, Book, Thinking

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• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mean, Creating, World

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Nuts, Long, Tea

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.

  Helen Mirren

  Friday, Indulge Yourself, Indulge In

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• I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

  Michael Moore

  People, Want, Facts

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

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• Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

  David Sedaris

  Art, Boys, Hands

  David Sedaris (2010). “Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Retirement, Golf, Games

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• I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for your job, whether you photograph on the weekends or everyday or once in a while, the main point is having fun and to be exercising your curiosity and to be really in love with what you are doing.

  Steve McCurry

  Photography, Jobs, Fun

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