“Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".” IfsEndsDonePoliticsWeekHavensPromiseRepublicanQuietDemocratAttackingWeek End Author:Will Rogers
“I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.” ShouldShowsKidsNightHoursHalfFourWeekHavensMonthsLosingDoctorsBonesHalf HoursCalcium Author:Stephen Colbert
“The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.” SaidLastsWeekHavensMajorsOscarsNominationsSnowstorms Author:Conan O'Brien
“The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.” IfsLifeDoeProblemHappensJoyNextNamesVoiceWorryHappenedWeekHavensHugeListeningAmountTomorrowUnrealJoy Of LifeNext Week Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.” HomeThreeGoneWeekHavensCollegeSixUniversityClubsBagsThree TimesColleges And Universities Author:Richie Havens
“Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.” PeopleWayTwoHeardWeekHavensCommunicationUnderstoodAriseManageItalianMisunderstandingTwo WeeksAugustClockwork Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.” ArtSelfLastsCommunityCitiesCompanyWeekHavensNew YorkMembersPerformancesCorruptionHypocrisyNew York CityBalletJustificationLast TimeBehalfCouncilRequestPhilipBenefactorsMorrisSelf JustificationCity CouncilPhilip Morris Author:Anna Quindlen
“I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.” MindSongThreeSoundWrittenWeekMinutesHavensWorkersSatisfiedTake Me Author:Nick Lowe
“I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.” PeopleHas BeensBookPastNamesSidesMemoriesWeekHavensMy FavoriteThings To DoCopiesTomsRoutesOver The PastThrillersBookstoresFavorites ThingsMainePawsFond Memories Author:John Hodgman
“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.” IfsWritingTwoUseActionOrderThreeStuffSimpleForgetBusinessTakenWrittenWeekHavensValuableCardsProductiveAssetsForget It Author:Seth Godin
“My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.” KnowsWorldLife IsWeekMissingHavensMy FavoriteCyclesPopePublic LifeInfallible Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.” Has BeensWeekFeetHavensWingsCancer Author:Johanna Konta
“When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).” LooksPastChanceWeekHavensReadyPicksPlanningBagsSchedulesMonte Carlo Author:Andy Roddick
“The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.” RunningWaterTechnologyWeekHavensStonesDebateStreamsEthical Author:Ray Kurzweil
“Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.” IdeasWhiteMorningKnowingWeekHavensPaperWake UpBlissEngagementTiedMondayTypewritersRibbonsMonday MorningTied UpCocoonsWhite Paper Book:A Peculiar Treasure Source: A Peculiar Treasure
“I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.” KnowsWayLittlesImportantStatesEnjoyFamilyFiveWeekHavensSixMusic IsMy FamilyImportant ThingsTired Author:Joe Pass
“I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.” ThinkingGivingWrittenWeekHavensCoupleSittingAwfulPianoGiving Yourself Author:George Shearing
“I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.” KnowsWritingChildrenSchoolClassCreativeWeekTeachingStyleHavensTaughtSummerAdultsEightCreative WritingWorkshopsElementary SchoolOlder Adults Author:Mary J. Miller
“It's something we do every week. Every week kind of has bigger name headliners. It's all just our taste. There's a lot of people like Ian Edwards or Dan Mintz who a lot of people haven't heard of yet, but we know are really great. When we started the show five years ago it wasn't because Patton Oswalt needs another place to play. It was because we had a lot of new friends like BJ Novak or Morgan Murphy, who didn't have any club to play.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsKindPlayShowsNamesFiveHeardWeekHavensTasteYears AgoBiggerClubsFive YearsReally GreatNew FriendsMurphy Author:B. J. Porter
“I've never been healthier. I haven't had a cigarette in two years. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week. I've been healthy and having a really good time.” YearsTwoRunningFiveFourWeekHavensHealthyMilesGood TimesTwo YearsCigarette Author:Jeff Tweedy
“If you are the leader, you don't have the right to say things like "Ugh, didn't eat this week I was so busy." "Haven't slept." I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don't think that way.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsLooksPersonsHardLeaderWeekHavensBusySidewaysUghBravadoWorking So Hard Author:Scott Raab
“I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview a female celebrity, I'd just go in and interview them like I'd interview any human being and talk about the things that interested me. And you'd come back, and you'd file your copy. And then my editor would read through my copy and go, why haven't you asked them if they want kids? And I'd be like, well, I don't know, I interviewed Aerosmith last week. And I didn't ask them that.” IfsKnowsWantHumansWellsFactsKidsLastsAsksHuman BeingsWeekHavensFemaleMagazinesJournalistInterviewsCopiesEditorsFilesAerosmith Author:Caitlin Moran
“Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.” PeopleThinkingWantProblemDreamBigsProcessTermChristCitiesVisionWeekHavensTypeMonthsCoupleStrategyExcitedPlanningPastor Author:John C. Maxwell
“Donald Trump has broken his first promise [to release taxes]. Second he stood on this stage last week and when Hillary said you haven't been paying taxes, he said, that makes me smart. So it's smart not to pay for our military. It's smart not to pay for veterans, it's smart not to pay for teachers and I guess all of us who do pay for those things I guess we're stupid.” FirstsSaidLastsPayTeacherWeekStageMilitaryHavensStupidBrokenTrumpPromiseTaxesSmartReleaseVeteranPaying Taxes Author:Tim Kaine
“I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentPoliticalInterestingWeekHavensFiguresExampleConversationDialogueCategoriesOrganize Author:Max Lucado
“I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back in season two or three. I don't know if they have plans for me or not. But I enjoyed working on it. And I think it's a really talented group of actors and, boy, very enterprising to try and shoot those every week, you know, with musical numbers and all that stuff.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingFirstsTwoThreeActorsStuffNumbersBoysPlansGroupsWeekHavensSeasonsMusicalEnjoyedEmpiresEpisodesKill MeEnterprising Author:Judd Nelson