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“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the 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.”

Ifs Men Life Years Mind Doe Lasts Life Is Suffering Next Known Path Week Distance Last Year Nevertheless Next Year Orbit Next Week Velocity Recurrence Periodicity

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.”

Ifs Looks Different Sleep Wife Week Bed Ten Garden Ministers Necks Labour Fence Neighbour

Author:Clement Attlee

“I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.”

Made Mistake Week Cables

Author:Joe Bob Briggs

“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.”

Ifs Way Said Ideas Sometimes Would Be Running Three Next Wish My Own Ability Numbers Talking Five Week Dying Fine Months Limits Riches Block Dry Embarrassment Number Three

Author:Woody Allen

“Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.”

Mind Ends Seems Would Be Lasts Moving Suffering Rooms Week Habit Devices Temporary Quarters Powerless

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.”

Song Girl Week Letters Singers Making Love Boudoir

Author:Frank Sinatra

“Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.”

Love Love Is Five Week Industry

Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.”

Feels Trying Years Two Kids Remember Used Sleep Week Bed Ten Endless Christmas Faster Two Weeks Going To Sleep Being A Kid Endless Time

Author:Andrea Arnold

“Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.”

Want Wells Three Cutting Week Arms Reader Flying Length Prudent Adjectives

Author:Elinor Glyn

“Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time - and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart.”

People Firsts Today Born Party Principles Millions Week Offers Smart First Time Surprise Doing Nothing Surprise Party

Author:Gracie Allen

“Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.”

Ifs Way Giving Trying Wells Looks Stills Different Next Mistake Air Week Security Scene Series Different Ways Flexibility Next Week

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that. It's not a lot of fun, that's for sure. If that really is love, the kind my mum talks about, then nobody can ever know if they love somebody, can they? It seems like what she's saying is, if you're pretty sure you love somebody, the way I was sure in those few weeks, then you can't love them, because that isn't what love is. Trying to understand what she means by love would do your head in.”

People Ifs Knows Way Love Trying Kind Mean Seems Fun Stuff Love Is Worry Week Forgiving Mum Kinds Of Love You Re Pretty Forgiving People

Author:Nick Hornby

“I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.”

Two Whole Able Week Goes On Holiday Belly

Author:Paul McCartney

“During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.”

Two War States Facts Fighting Winning President United Cities United States Week Fronts Resources Wounded July Riot

Author:J. William Fulbright

“If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.”

People Ifs Should Believe Book Week England Urgent Appointments Wednesday

Book:I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn

Source: I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn

“Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.”

Feels Use Young Girl Bits Week Honor Mets Burden I Realized Embarrassed Empowered Good Words

Author:Lucy Lawless

“Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.”

Writing Ends Pay Five Week Offers Prove Dollars Advertising Ads Prove It Scarcity Week End

Book:Scientific Advertising

Source: Scientific Advertising

“A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.”

Persons Hours Week Average Income More Time

Author:Warren Farrell

“When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: --When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; --When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.”

Men Looks Two Hours Pay Week He Man Equal Men And Women Discovery Astonishing

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.”

“I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.”

Two Week Mountain Hiding Two Weeks

Author:Patrick McGoohan

“Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy.”

Energy Results Week Constant Rate Stores Employment Each Day Fatigue Workmen

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.”

Knows Said Wife Week Identity News Agency July Ambassadors Wilson Wmd

Author:Karl Rove

“There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.”

Ifs Wanted Hours Week Months Republican Offers Bills Debate Limitation Suspects Senate Amendments Session

Author:Rick Santorum

“The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.”

Past House Week Transformation Ministers Remarkable Prime Prime Minister Beans

Author:Vince Cable

“TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.”

People Ifs Thinking Shows Lasts Three Walks Millions Week Fronts Tvs Be Good Buzz

Author:Jimmy Carr

“Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.”

Long Two Today Bits Hours Fiction Morning Novel Week Six Block Landscape Odd Internals Sunday Afternoon Regularity Fruition Sunday Afternoons

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

“I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.”

Source: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

“Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.”

People Want Jobs Week Goes On Management Seven Intensity Tolls Seven Days

Author:Kenny Dalglish

“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?”

“All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN”

Week Bills Tunes Senate Stimulus

Author:Chuck Grassley

“I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.”

Want Kind Problem Stuff Sleep Forever Week Cry Built Illness All Kinds Keep Going Overwhelming Going To Sleep

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.”

World Needs Years Play Shows Able Film Guy Half Morning Audience Nice Week Brother Months Discipline Involved Scene Tools Theater Eight Bags Rehearsal Your Brother

Author:William Sadler

“I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the way that you want the script to be. It's really about capturing the complexity of emotions and creating the kind of characters that people will want to watch every week.”

People Thinking Way Want Kind Done Character Film Challenges Numbers Emotion Watches Week Creating Scripts Complexity

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“If you make sure that you always work as hard as you can, on and off the ice, you will achieve your goals. It might not be instantly, it might not be next week, but you will get to where you want to be.”

Ifs Want Hard Might Next Goal Week Achieve Ice And Off Next Week Achieving Your Goals

Author:Phil Hill

“I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.”

Way Ends School Order Week Months Decided Paid Newspapers Sensible Arranging

Author:Terry Pratchett

“By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.”

Writing Book Done Lasts Hate Half Five Week Pages Sticks Other Half Rewriting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.”

People Writing Seems Spiritual Speak Growth Issues Week Cry Solutions Illness Wounds Heal Enlightened Spiritual Growth Obesity Work And Money

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.”

People Thinking Two Heard Week Fascinated Olympics Two Weeks

Author:Amy Argetsinger

“I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.”

Knows Writing Stories Goal Hours Break Week Basics Specifics

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.”

Should Facts Jobs Week Degrees Training Tied Requirements Unemployment Associates Compensation Job Training

Author:Newt Gingrich

“The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.”

People Decision Greater Week Car Judging Exercise Beats Likes Policemen Discretion

Author:Warren E. Burger

“It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.”

Years Two Week Two Weeks

Book:The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.”

Wanted Three Week Tomorrow My Boyfriend

Author:Ali Larter

“I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week.”

Home Bigs Watches Week Cry Tvs Extremes Sap Madly In Love Makeovers

Author:Eva LaRue

“Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.”

Ifs Way Writing Littles Stories Hands Seems Waiting Hours Common Enemy Week Periods Tables Submit Procrastination Desks Avoiding Chained

Book:This Year You Write Your Novel

Source: This Year You Write Your Novel

“When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.”

Needs Looks Facts Week Serious Amount Solutions Spending Ridiculous Addresses Senate Deficit Proposal February Deficit Spending

Author:Kristi Noem

“If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Actors Cases Saws Week Serious Colleagues

Author:Elaine Paige

“So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Moral Week Fronts Stupid Really Stupid

Author:Alicia Witt

“I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.”

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