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Source: The Doctor, Etc

“And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!”

Ifs Courses Found House Taken Heard Week Empty Bottles Dozen Brandy

Book:Remembered Death

Source: Remembered Death

“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.”

Source: A Pocket Full of Pebbles

“Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.”

Thinking Should Children Long Matter Shows Parent Hours Teacher Week Research Program Starting Engaged You Choose Therapists

Author:Temple Grandin

“A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.”

People Week Flavor Electronic Music

Author:Kaskade

“Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.”

Week Mom Months Mates Good Friend Days Of The Week Good Mom

Author:Amy Grant

“Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.”

States Together Beautiful Loss United Grief United States Week Strange Months Mourning Fabric Torn Beautiful Words Transmutation Fabric Of Life

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“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.”

Ifs Life Doe Problem Happens Joy Next Names Voice Worry Happened Week Havens Huge Listening Amount Tomorrow Unreal Joy Of Life Next Week

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.”

Believe Children Made Evil Understanding Week Taught Lucky Wide Omen Days Of The Week Soundness

Author:Isaac Watts

“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source: Silences

“nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.”

People Class Week Theory Civilization Summer Vacation Leisure Decline Contemplating Negativity Restful Summer Vacation

Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.”

Feels Three Wish Week Months Six Tired Surface Rome Exhausted Six Months Three Months

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.”

Ifs Persons Body Three Found Cities Forever Week Length Pollution Found Dead

Author:Liv Ullmann

“Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.”

Two Talking Week Holy Ghost Evening Holy Ghost Proust

Author:Edna O'Brien

“As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.”

Believe May Stories Next Hours Week Subjects Hero Tomorrow Finished Suspense Chapters Day To Day Next Week

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk?”

Ends Sometimes Moving Week Middle Sunday Desks Trays

Book:The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

Source: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.”

Ifs Week Pressure Crowds Nfl Butterfly Trash Rip Espn

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.”

Wells Focus Week Team Ready Nfl Sunday Super Bowl Seattle

Author:Bill Belichick

“We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.”

Want Ends Lost Cities Records Player Week Meetings Noise Chiefs Get Better Nfl The End Of The Day Ignored Doubted Super Bowl Kansas Better Days Kansas City

Author:Russell Wilson

“I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.”

Jobs Leader Week Team Captains Assignments Team Leader

Author:Larry Fitzgerald

“Everything is moderation, really. I don't really deprive myself of anything. But I try to balance it with healthy food choices. I am not real fond of exercise, so I try to get away with as little as possible which is about thirty minutes three times a week and I do a little weight training and cardio.”

Trying Littles Real Choices Three Week Minutes Balance Exercise Healthy Training Weight Thirty Get Away Moderation Three Times Healthy Food Cardio Weight Training Food Choices

Author:Martina McBride

“It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.”

“To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Littles Moments Next Term Chance Audience One Thing Week Happenings Performances Cameras Fulfilling Take A Chance Captured Next Week

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I've always been me. The last three weeks of my career, I've cut some of the best promos I've ever cut, and I do consider myself to be a promo guy.”

Lasts Guy Three Careers Cutting Week

Author:CM Punk

“When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.”

Wanted Song Felt Week Messages Excited Melody Very Strong Haunting

Author:Brendon Urie

“I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.”

People Thinking World Way Want Book Lost Week Ruined

Author:Sarah Kay

“I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.”

Years Moments Running Lasts Fun Stuff Bits Week Stage Goes On Snow Brands Variety Last Year Virgins Handful Brand New Spanking

Author:Brian Regan

“So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.”

Two Sometimes Matter Shows Moving Energy Week Months Concerts Two Weeks

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.”

Firsts Littles Three Fire Week Models Cameras Caught Stealing Department Mum Bedroom Grounded Drapes Fire Department

Author:Michael Bay

“Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.”

Important Might Able Reading Given Interesting Week Notes Come Up Showers Note Taking

Author:Teju Cole

“Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.”

Lasts Beautiful Moving Five Week Minutes Flower Sitting Garden Rose Breathe Fence Five Minutes

Book:Letters of Celia Thaxter

Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter

“The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.”

Ends Home Successful Week Eating Summer Conscience Dinner Gardening Truck Corn Gardener Beans Packaging Freezer Week End

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

Years Mind Doe Matter Lasts Suffering Next Week Events Depends Tides Last Year Next Year Ups & Downs Next Week Recurrence

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.”

Light Form Healing Darkness Saws Week Heal Cracks Darkness To Light

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.”

Two Certain Roles Doors Week Feet Restaurants Twilight Two Weeks Flew Hype Portland

Author:Ashley Greene

“the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.”

People Firsts Night White Too Much Week Dog Strange Color Summer Rain Hot Silent Sorry Dawn Sunset Lightning Blank Thunder August Noon All Alone Breathless Quiver Dog Days

Author:Natalie Babbitt

“I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.”

Mean Used Night Actors Week Losing Performances Lifetime Used To Be Crafts Frightened Peculiar One Night

Author:Glenda Jackson

“I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.”

Source: Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

“Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.”

Years Wells Children Ends Might Literature Term Dark Week Unhappiness Tunnels Thirteen Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:Graham Greene

“I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know.”

Knows Whole Walks Levels Week Intelligent Meetings Fishes Boring Suits Entertaining Orange Velvet Popcorn Cleavage Leggings

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.”

Ifs Giving Running Passion Week Stupid Six Horse Nervous Sunday Awkward Heels Truck Brutes Reins

Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.”

Years May Ends God Remember Pay Week Months

Author:Anne of Austria

“For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.”

Character Lasts Found Week Six

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.”

World Should Self Stories Eye Able Lasts Next Written Week Subjects Red Window Letters Should Have Manage Staring Going Away Self Control Next Week Moths Red Eye

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.”

Needs Firsts Children Use Able Mother Taken Week Months Understood Narcissistic

Book:Prisoners of Childhood

Source: Prisoners of Childhood

“Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?”

Men Needs Wells Week Kitchen Relax Sexism Weekend Housework

Author:Lucille Kallen

“Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.”

Week Satisfaction Satisfied Good Week

Author:Lucille Kallen

“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.”

Writing Mind Has Beens Two Country Stories Seems Brain Pieces Groups Week Century Ten Limits Filled China Data Borders Traveled Analysts Crawling Filing

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.”

Source: A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories

“writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.”

Two Might Week Minutes Staring Two Weeks

Book:Foul Matter

Source: Foul Matter

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