Week Quotes - page 3

Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights. (John Bright)
Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week. View quote
Lewis Black
I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know. View quote
Sarah Michelle Gellar
At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries. View quote
Dolph Lundgren
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
My week beats your year. View quote
Lou Reed
You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid. View quote
Charles Barkley
My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week. View quote
Julia Child
French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly. View quote
Jay Leno
Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week. View quote
Temple Grandin
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. (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. View quote
Alicia Witt
I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon. View quote
Helen Thomas
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. View quote
Henny Youngman
He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week. View quote
Chelsea Handler
Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing." View quote
Yvette Cooper
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells. View quote
Charlie Brooker
If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent. View quote
Bryan Robson
So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse, 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 Nassariyeh - the latter a city which briefly rose in successful revolt against Saddam in 1991 - why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad? View quote
Robert Fisk
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. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped - always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. View quote
Don Marquis
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. View quote
John Cheever
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation if fifteen minutes, three days if half an hour, two days if an hour, I am ready now. View quote
Woodrow Wilson