Best week & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Enjoy Week One Day Percent Ideals Thirds Definitions Miserable Urges Where You Are

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.”

Ends Character Shows Feelings Energy Audience Trouble Week Beats Eight

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”

Ifs Art Ends Life Is Artist Week Economic Integrity Ideals Independence Profession Preserves Aesthetic Hateful Grind Solace Ideal Life Daily Grind Economic Independence Week End

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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".”

Ifs Ends Done Politics Week Havens Promise Republican Quiet Democrat Attacking Week End

Author:Will Rogers

“End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.”

Ends Work Week Cheeks Wages

Author:Ray Davies

“It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.”

Ends Wanted Girl Three Wish Sound My Own Steps Fantasy Week Scene Bed England Careful Hills Therapy Be Careful Aversion Careful What You Wish For

Author:Steve Coogan

“The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.”

Firsts Ends Three Levels Week Acceptance First Time Following Locals Granted Application Filling Membership Initiate Snacks Initiation Freeman Lodges

Author:Adam Rex

“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

“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

“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

“He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club that wanted him. First of all, he came in and told me that Arsenal wanted to buy him, then the next week it was Manchester Utd, then the next week it was Real Madrid. He made it clear that he did not want to be at the club so, in the end, there was only one thing I could do - send him to Wigan.”

“I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.”

Ifs Needs Ends Shows Next Sports Waiting Term Hurt Chance Week Training Surgery Joints Next Week

Author:Claudio Reyna

“I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure Im balancing time between my career and my personal life.”

Ends Careers Week Personal Life

Author:Jill Wagner

“My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.”

Ifs Knows Said Ends Lasts Mother Black Teacher Week Son Thirds Dresses Green University Lovely Therapy Grades Spokes New Orleans Your Son Third Grade

Author:Laverne Cox

“Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.”

Doe Ends Week Smoking Pounds Gave Up

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.”

Ifs Men Firsts Ends Humor Funny Film Doors Week Husband Cameras Video My Husband Scream Locks Bathroom Your Husband Video Cameras

Author:Rita Rudner

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.”

Firsts Two Ends Three Week Months Staying Two Months Captivated

Author:Susan Minot

“I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.”

Knows Feels Ends Wonder Know How Week How You Feel

Author:Dan Wells

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Matter Done Today Action Lying Certain Week Amount Each Day Accumulation Good Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.”

Ifs Looks Mean Ends Shows Problem Guy Strong Week Television Shots Heavy Solve Be Good Dramatic Guests Whips Good Guy

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.”

World Writing Ends Enough Song Week Car Ten Paid Sells Forty

Author:Scott Weiland

“When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.”

Ends Play Used Games Winning Week Team Block League Champion Attacking Premier League Champions League

Author:Gareth Bale

“There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.”

Important Real Ends Leader Magic Week Priorities Setting Settings Outcomes Measuring Good Leader Being A Good Leader

Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.”

Ifs Knows Important Ends Use Results Week Products Transformation Profound My Favorite Cancer Come Up Critical Customers Cures Clarity Billionaire Old Saying Favorite Words

Author:Brian Tracy

“I'd like to say I'm one of the tight ends here and I hope this week helps me show that I do have the talent to be considered that.”

Ends Helping Shows Week Talent Nfl Help Me

Author:Maxx Williams

“At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.”

Years Ends Shows Together Gone Our Lives Cutting Air Week Stage Tvs Blessing Moved Seven Ties Seven Years Moved On Family Ties

Author:Gary David Goldberg

“Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.”

Has Beens Two Ends Week Dignity Legends Could Have Been Two Weeks Barcelona

Author:Cesc Fabregas

“We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.”

Men Wells Stills Ends Values Week Ought Income Maximum

Author:Sir John Richard Hicks

“A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.”

“Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.”

Two Book Ends Happens Three Fiction Week Dozen Nonfiction Verses Volume New Books Old Books

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“One week I'll get pancakes at Bongo Room, the next week I go to Kuma's Corner. But I always end up at Coldstone. I love ice cream.”

Ends Next Rooms Week Corners Ice Cream Ice Cream Next Week Pancakes Bongos

Author:CM Punk

“If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.”

Ifs Should Ends Humor Funny Water Week Drink Garden Scientist Ass Bottles

Author:Lewis Black

“After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent!”

Two Ends Left Race Week College Track Legs Two Weeks

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.”

Way Doe Book Ends Character Water Five Week New York Changed Singing Lists Mainstream New York Times Sellers Insiders Best Sellers Hitchhiking Times Have Changed Duets

Author:John Waters

“I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.”

Littles Ends Film Found Felt Goal Growing Week Shapes Six Secure Get Back Pregnancy Little Things Goddess Comforting Cheated Calming Corsets I Cheated

Author:Anna Friel

“Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.”

Ends Week

Author:Steve Buscemi

“I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.”

Trying Firsts Real Ends Hard Play Used Games Week Months Terrible Baseball Seasons

Author:Lou Gehrig

“It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.”

Thinking May Book Ends Seems Today Universe Fun Week Consequence Library Collapse Library Books Overdue Just For Fun

Author:Gareth Roberts

“Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.”

Years Ends Done Asks Week Months

Book:The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life

“The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.”

People Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Kind Ends Stories Film Next Asks Differences Audience Week Television Tvs Return Directors Next Week

Author:Jason Reitman

“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.”

Trying Ends Hard Play Shows Feelings Three Courses Four Week New York Terrible Eating Okay Accounts Eight Tomatoes

Author:Richard Ayoade

“I love what I do and feel really lucky to still love what I do - I want to get out of bed and go to work at least three out of five days a week! My fear is it ends up any less than three days. But design-wise, I've still got an appetite, a lot more I want to say with my work - the story is not nearly complete!”

Want Feels Stills Ends Stories Three Five Wise Week Design Lucky Bed Appetite

Author:Matthew Williamson

“When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.”

Children Ends Today Together Names Fun Week Team Lessons Skills Circles Tennis Drills

Author:Billie Jean King

“I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.”

Trying Has Beens Ends Night Goal Lines Opinion Week Involved News Available Analysis Reporters Friday Covering Friday Night

Author:Gwen Ifill

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