Best week & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.”

Years Kids Actors Company Week Needed Mets Members Theater Towns

Author:Trevor Nunn

“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.”

Writing Years Littles Bits Hours Break Week Months Couple Little Bit Pace

Author:Amy Ray

“I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.”

Years Week Retired

Author:Sally Rand

“For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.”

Feels Years Has Beens House Happened Week Fans Tvs Succeed Full House

Author:John Stamos

“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”

Years Three Found Father Left Week Affair Pregnant Mum Were Pregnant

Author:Carol Vorderman

“I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.”

Years Kids Known Watches Week Tvs Odd Weekend Milk Organic Food

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.”

Years Firsts Said Enough Guy Three Comedy Week Feet Shots Yeah Making Money Ran Gates Three Years Had Enough Misled

Author:Al Franken

“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

Years Wells May Whole School Values Week Summer Conviction Organized Camps Formal Summer Camp Whole Year School Work

Author:Charles William Eliot

“No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.”

Years Three Week Stress Prepared Insanity

Author:Evan Daugherty

“I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.”

Years Lasts Week New York Last Year

Author:Patricia Velasquez

“My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.”

Years Courses Pay Known Week Return Percent My Favorite Investors

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.”

Years Ideas Week Months

Author:Tim Bray

“When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.”

Ifs Writing Years Made Stories Deals Class Teacher Week Short Story Friday English Teacher

Author:Victor Salva

“During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.”

Years Running Evil Week New York Kingdoms Useless More Money Denmark Evil Things

Book:Prejudices Fourth Series

Source: Prejudices Fourth Series

“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.”

“The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.”

Source: The Signature of Jesus

“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”

Thinking Years Made School Jobs Week Died Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother School Lunch Granddaddy

Author:Willie Nelson

“I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.”

Years Real Film Next Violence Week Seven Seven Years Psycho Sociopath

Author:Greg Bryk

“The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.”

“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”

Years Artist Understanding Week Months Cost Reflection Understood Flash Dilettantes

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Week Perception Gasoline Inventory Previous Years

Author:Kyle Cooper

“I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.”

Years Looks Whole Moments Remember Music Week Months Ten Photograph Capture

Author:Keren Ann

“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.”

People Years Has Beens Jobs Lasts Bits Growth Company Economy Week Couple Management Decent Buying Chocolate Improving Accounting Great Job Restructuring

Author:Liz Miller

“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

“I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate. My wife and I have been going to a personal trainer for weights and balance twice a week for 10 years. My balance has improved tremendously and the weights decrease my age. I only feel 52, not 82.”

Feels Years Heart Has Beens Two Age Walks Morning Wife Week Balance My Heart Exercise Weight Increase Aging Rate My Wife Hills Each Day Bike Decrease Trainers Heart Rate

Author:Robert Bateman

“Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year, give a month at least. The time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”

Ifs Giving Years Whole Bigs Taken Week Duty Months Blessing Summer Heavy Wander Immortal Tangled Sponges

Author:John Muir

“I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.”

Years Hours Sleep Week Eight

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.”

Knows Way Years Littles Made Hands Christian Left Week Teaching Goes On Pages Foundation Jew Scripture Boast Oracles

Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh

“Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.”

Years Problem Motivational Individual Hours Answers Week Minutes Months Add Relative

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.”

Years Moving Hours Watches Week Movement Color Flower Taste Tired Smell Sensual Lapses Time Lapse

Author:Louis Schwartzberg

“For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.”

Ifs Years Wells Feelings Remember Morning Week Exercise Seven Dinner Holiday Afternoon New Year Pulling Rope New Years Eve Workaholic Seven Days

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know about stocks is exactly when they will up or go down. Over the long term, stocks generally rise at a nice pace. History shows they double in value every seven years or so. But in the short term, stocks are just plain wild. Over periods of days, weeks and months, no one has any idea what they will do. Still, nearly all investors think they are smart enough to divine such short-term movements. This hubris frequently gets them into trouble.”

“As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'”

Years Believe Stills Philosophy Asks Week Months Oneself I Still Believe

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.”

Years Mind Ideas Different Three Growth Brain Week Childhood Century Theory Months Billions Scales Fleeting

Author:Marvin Minsky

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every month to 200,000 pastors who are broadly called evangelicals, bringing them up to date on what is happening in Washington, in the state capitals, in the culture, and what we need to do about it. And of course I'm criticized for it, and of course I have calculated the positives and the negatives, but I have long been at peace with what I do.”

Needs Writing Years Long States Lasts Culture Courses Religious Week Months Happenings Letters Newspapers Pastor Up To Date

Author:Jerry Falwell

“The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.”

Years Real Character Earth Purpose Three Jesus Christ Known Week Three Years Ministry Real Character

Book:Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

“My week beats your year.”

Years Week Beats

Book:Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

Source: Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”

Ifs Years Looks Persons Shows Faces Week Bears Ugly Twits

Book:James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.”

Men World Years Age Week Bed Married Old Age Old Man Baths Old Woman Sponges Newlyweds

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.”

Years Pain Left Simple Week Bed Europe Patient Treatment Flexible Joints Mobile Crippled Crutches Clinic Arthritis

Author:Paavo Airola

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.”

“Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family.”

Years Long Two Running President Talking Break Week Media Our Family End Times Spend Time

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“After a six-year battle, the Senate will vote next week to begin construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is an oil pipeline that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. They're hoping the pipeline will provide enough oil to cover Kim Kardashian's next photo shoot.”

Years Enough Running Next Week Battle Six Vote Oil Canada Construction Senate Coast Next Week Kim Pipeline Photo Shoots Keystones

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.”

Years Stills Lasts Speak Voice Wise Player Week Football Normal Accepted Managers Soccer Awards Chairman Speak English Mimicking Best Ever Zola Cockneys

Author:Ken Bates

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