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“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.”

Ifs Men Giving Book Would Be Months Birth Periods Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.”

Thinking Want Giving Reality Car Months Investment Practicals Horrible Lease Warranty

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.”

Ifs World Giving War Moving Force Months Seven Saddam Hussein Tanks Seven Months

Author:Ralph Peters

“In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.”

Giving Persons Months Tough Bread Chickens Quarters Cuba

Author:William Levy

“If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Book Law Months Six Six Months

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.”

Giving Mother Born Months Give Me Saved Pounds Eighteen Auschwitz

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!”

Knows Men Want Giving Wells Littles Long Can Do Color Months Photography Illusion Machines Ultimate Intelligent Do You Know Sweat Ingenious Can Do Something Intelligent Man

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.”

Men Giving Whole Care Ability Situation Duty Months Six Raises Fortune Bread Luxury Sensual Generosity Expenses Dishes Toil Vicious Six Months Gratification Whole Family Peas

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.”

Thinking Giving Littles Different Left Interest Study Subjects Months Highest Rivers Edges Angle Bending Motifs Plentiful Different Angles

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth”

Thinking Giving Hard Winning New York Months Birth Ten Gym Marathon Giving Birth

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year, give a month at least. The time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”

Ifs Giving Years Whole Bigs Taken Week Duty Months Blessing Summer Heavy Wander Immortal Tangled Sponges

Author:John Muir

“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.”

Giving Wells Mean Children Earth America Mother Force Stuff Creativity Stupid Months Periods Relief Pregnant New Beginnings Punctuation

Author:Michelene Wandor