“I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.” TwoWholeCultureFatherMonthsShotsHatsPairsTexasBootsCowboyTwo MonthsCowboy Hat Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.” FirstsWholeProcessNovelMonthsAnxiousBlogging Author:Laini Taylor
“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.” WorldYearsLittlesDoneWholeNaturalWorkDutyMonthsMachinesWhole LifeInevitableDegradeDrudgery Book:The Outline of History Source: The Outline of History
“Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.” MenGivingWholeCareAbilitySituationDutyMonthsSixRaisesFortuneBreadLuxurySensualGenerosityExpensesDishesToilViciousSix MonthsGratificationWhole FamilyPeas Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“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.” YearsLooksWholeMomentsRememberMusicWeekMonthsTenPhotographCapture Author:Keren Ann
“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.” IfsGivingYearsWholeBigsTakenWeekDutyMonthsBlessingSummerHeavyWanderImmortalTangledSponges Author:John Muir
“I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.” KindLongWholeLastsNightPleasureMonthsFitExerciseMountainDiseaseDepressionEndureWoodsAwakeTortureYieldSolitaryCompositionCommunionAll NightAltarsIndustriousManiaByronScribbles Book:The Portable Edgar Allan Poe Source: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
“I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.” PeopleWholeAnswersStudyWeekMonthsDrinkDecidedUniversityAverageScaredAlcoholI RealizedWhole LifePanicUnitsColumbiaPanic AttacksColumbia UniversityQuestionnaires Author:Moby
“To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.” WholeMotherCollegeWillingSonMonthsUniversityWhole LifeObligationAcknowledgeIdleFourteenRenounceOxford Author:Edward Gibbon
“We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.” WholeMightGuySportsTalkingMonthsSixTrainingSeasonsOver YouCampsLaughedSix MonthsBubbaTraining Camp Author:Bubba Smith