“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.” TwoFunnyHappinessWatchesWeekFindingsSittingNeighborVacationSlidesTwo WeeksColonySitting DownNudists Author:Johnny Carson
“Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.” ChildrenSchoolPlansWeekMaterialsInternetHusbandFindingsSolutionsLibraryAlternativesMy HusbandProposal Author:Tipper Gore
“Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.” IfsWritingKindLittlesIdeasDifferentMomentsReadingStuffHoursWeekMonthsSceneFindingsScriptsDialogueDifferent Ideas Author:Mark Wahlberg
“John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.” WayGivingShouldFunClearWeekFrontsInternetRepublicanFindingsShould HaveDenyHeatTreatmentRunnersOld FashionedRumorBrowsJohn KerryBotox Author:Bill Maher
“It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.” MeanChildrenLittlesDoeInterestAbilityWeekTeachingStudentsTaughtMonthsFindingsStandardsUnderstoodDevelopingGradesFourthPupilsFractionsRigorSixth GradeCenterednessFourth GradeDecimals Book:TIES THAT STRESS Source: TIES THAT STRESS
“Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig and chèvre salad at least once a week and that's a combo that's hard to beat.” YearsWellsHardWeekFindingsBeatsSaladFigs Author:Karen Walker
“It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY” WorldWayNeedsChildrenImportantShowsJoyLaughingImpossibleWeekShareTelevisionSeriousTvsFindingsFunctionImportanceStupidityMy ChildrenChanging The WorldImmenseTv ShowsFinding Out The Truth Author:Richard Curtis
“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.” PeopleBelieveMeanLittlesCountryMatterShowsCareTurnsWaitingInterestPracticeOne ThingWeekMonthsFindingsUniversalHealth CarePhrasesBritainCanadaSurgerySwedenUniversal Health Care Author:Thomas Sowell
“I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTryingKindSometimesHelpingDifferencesLevelsWeekDadFindingsCapableRedImpactFinalsMy DadFocusedHelping OthersVideoMaking A DifferenceFlagsSpontaneousEgotisticalRed FlagsBe SpontaneousFinals Week Author:Lisa Shannon
“Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying and just so happy, I can't even explain it. It was euphoric. People said I went from freedom my whole life to prison, but in reality, I went from imprisonment and bondage of sin and death my whole life, to finding freedom in a prison cell.” PeopleSaidI CanTwoWholeRealityPrayerSinWifeWeekCryFindingsPrisonPhonesMy WifeWhole LifeCellsBondageArrestedTwo WeeksImprisonmentEuphoricPrison Cells Author:Christian Hosoi
“I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months.” MeanSpacePayWeekStyleMonthsAmountCoupleFindingsRedDecidedSellsIncrediblesDrivingHatedTennisBagsFlashDefiniteRealisedFerrariTurner Author:Andy Murray
“This is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your mind up on whether I've succeeded or not. But yes, I found it difficult when we were shooting; it was a couple of weeks before I settled into not worrying - to finding a way of delivering those lines - so my worries of many months before I think had been justified. I found it a difficult way of being.” IfsThinkingWayMindFoundDifficultLinesActingWorryWeekMonthsCoupleFindingsShootingIf I CouldJustifiedDeliveringNot Worrying Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.” WellsBookReadingWeekChangedFindingsEmptyColourFlatsImmediacy Author:Doris Lessing