Best Fortnight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.”

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.”

Knows Men Ends Fortnight

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?' 'He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear. 'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Hagrid bit his lip. 'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.' Harry suddenly turned to Ron. 'Charlie,' he said. 'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?”

Knows Giving Said I Can Moments Bigs Eye Remember House Lost Bits Watches Losing Decided Ears Lips Dragons Know Me Charlie Marble Dump Misty Mummy Hagrid Malfoy Fortnight

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The triumph of hope over experience.”

“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.”

Giving Writing Years Book Action Novel Air Easier Criticism Critics Holes Making Money Journalist Reviews Articles Dislike Posing Crank Opiates Fortnight

Author:Cyril Connolly

“It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.”

Source: Etruscan Places

“Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.”

Two Sometimes Use Happens Waiting Week Really Great Two Weeks Fortnight

Author:Demetri Martin

“In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.”

Courses Situation Opinion Week Changed Educational Don't Change Educational System Fortnight

Author:John Hume

“Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.”

Years Two Mother Left Week Crime Son Late Resurrection Annihilation Mother And Son Mother Son Fortnight Mother Son Relationship

Book:Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight.”

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Author:Jack Dee

“For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.”

Heart Care Broken Broken Heart Follow Up Fortnight

Author:Graham Nelson

“In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.”

Use Next Fortnight

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.”

Happens Spirit Born London Miles Fortnight Spirit Of Place

Author:Peter Ackroyd