“John Kerry announced that he and his wife are leaving on a week-long vacation. He's going to take her back to the place where he first proposed to her - at her bank.” FirstsLongWifeWeekLeavingVacationJohn KerryLong Vacation Author:Jay Leno
“You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens.” IfsKnowsYearsLongTwoHappensWeekLong TimeTestsShoesTwo Weeks Author:Manolo Blahnik
“It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.” KnowsWayLongRealJobsHoursWeekFortyMeaninglessVocation Author:Sam Keen
“Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?” LongHomeSunWeekCostSummerNuclearHolidayWeekendImmenseFestivalsHeadacheNuclear FamiliesFamily HolidayLong Weekend Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.” IfsLongBookDifferentFormDiesReadingStuffMorningSeeingWeekMinutesAmountGet UpGymSchedulesEmbarrassingEmailUrgentTweetKindlesServer Author:Maria Popova
“But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form, and then my day begins. I usually try to do most of my writing earlier in the day because I sort of lump out later on.” WritingTryingLongBookFormGoneWeekLengthLumps Author:Maria Popova
“You don't realize how long that NFL season is. It's a long season, especially in your first year. Not only do you spend a lot of time preparing for the draft and working out, but they you have OTAs, minicamps, training camp, preseason games. By the time you get to week six you've already had one of the longest years of your football life and you still have 11 weeks to go, plus the playoffs.” YearsFirstsLongStillsGamesRealizingWeekFootballSixTrainingSeasonsWork OutNflPlusCampsPreparingPlayoffsHey YouTraining Camp Author:Giovani Bernard
“I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze-and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.” LongWalksWeekDogGoes OnCoupleWeightClubsWork OutGoldenBreezeMy DogLong WalksRetrieversGolden Retrievers Author:Karen Hughes
“My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.” LongWeekMaternityMaternity Leave Author:Marissa Mayer
“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsLongTwoSchoolThreeHoursFourWeekHugeDramaEnglandCoachesBackgroundsShootingFour YearsAccentsThree TimesSessionNuanceDialectThailandSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“There are very few horror shows, where you have a long running arc. Most horror shows play as a sort of an anthology. Buffy - a terrific show - had the-demon-of-the-week. Twilight Zone - X Files - these things had an anthology approach. Our show is a long running drama with the same creatures every week.” LongPlayShowsRunningWeekDramaHorrorCreaturesApproachDemonZoneTwilightTerrificFilesArcsAnthologyX FilesTwilight Zone Author:Glen Mazzara
“What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingLongI CanSometimesKidsJobsYoungStuffTeachTeacherWeekCollegePeriodsDegreesMathematicsCommunicateDecentHomeworkWorkshopsLong Periods Of Time Author:Philippe Falardeau
“We can begin ever so modestly. We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs. . .I fear that so many feel that a long-term food supply is so far beyond their reach that they make no effort at all. . .Begin in a small way, ... and gradually build toward a reasonable objective.” WayNeedsFeelsLongThreeTermEffortWeekMonthsObjectivesLong TermReasonableThree MonthsBasic NeedsFood Supply Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.” LongTwoWeekFootballLong TimeEnglandTwo Days Author:Steve McClaren
“The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."” FirstsLongEndsPlayUsedActorsLinesBoysWeekReadyGoes OnWestDearCarefulOld DaysOld TimeTimerWest EndOld Timers Author:Tom Courtenay
“A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.” LongWeekCoupleLong TimeAmerican Politics Author:Peter Jennings
“It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.” KnowsWantFeelsWritingLongBookDifferentCharacterStoriesWeekReadyCircumstancesLong TimeFinishedWriting A BookDifferent CharactersWriting StoriesOh My Gosh Author:Molly Antopol
“China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from big, state-owned enterprises. They don't follow any long-term business plan and don't rent office space for years to come. They start out and need an office right away, for a week, a month or half a year, and they want to be among other entrepreneurs like themselves.” WantNeedsYearsLongStatesBigsTermSpaceNumbersHalfCompanyEconomyPlansWeekMonthsOfficeEntrepreneurComplexesChinaMediumsLong TermEnterpriseLarge NumbersBusiness PlanHalf A YearOffice Space Author:Zhang Xin
“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.” PeopleWritingYearsLongTwoEnoughWould BeJobsThreeReadingStuffWeekMaterialsInternetEasierSixLong TimeScaryI RealizedVersionsBoredDiariesLong Time AgoFunny ThingsHad Enough Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.” WayFeelsWritingKindMeanLongThreeHoursWeekPeriodsMadnessMethodStrikesDramaticWorldlyCompulsionLong Periods Of Time Author:Kevin Keck
“I hadn't really been in that world for too long. It was fun for me, but definitely wasn't my world. When I went to my first Paris Fashion Week, I had been invited to the Louis Vuitton show by Nicolas. We met there. It was all organic and fun for me.” WorldFirstsLongShowsFunWeekFashionMetsParisInvitedFashion WeekLouis VuittonParis Fashion Author:Selena Gomez
“There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.” PeopleLongAttentionWeekLimitsSixDisappearTerritoryThank GodAttention SpanTime Limit Author:Sia Furler
“In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.” PeopleYearsLongTwoAmericaWeekSlaveIncrediblesAssHolidayProsperousTwo Weeks Author:Pankaj Mishra
“A while back there was this fad where a big star [would get] a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people were like, "No, they didn't produce, they just took the credit." I was flabbergasted. So when I started, people were weirded out by the fact that I was like, "How long is our prep? I'll come a week before that." They were like, "We're not shooting for six weeks."” PeopleLongFactsBigsAsksStarsWeekProduceSixCreditShootingFadsPreps Author:Charlize Theron