Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Allan McNish

I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

Alex McLeish

Shay Given is champing on the door to be involved this weekend

Alberto Gonzales

Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.

Jim Calhoun

We don't know what this week and, hopefully, weekend is going to bring.

Abigail Breslin

I get $13 a week now, because I'm 13.

Aaron Levie

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Bobby Petrino

No, no, we don't like having the bye week right after the opener,

Jason Blum

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Celia Rivenbark

To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

Al Yankovic

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

Anton Yelchin

I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so sometimes I'll order something if I'm really pining for it when I'm on location.

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Clay Shirky

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

Daniel Kahneman

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

Daniel Kahneman

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

Daniel Day-Lewis

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes.

Dule Hill

Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.

Dustin Hoffman

You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.

Anne Enright

Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

The DBs keep getting better week to week.

Alex Haley

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

Don DeLillo

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

Donald Trump

The one I saw over the weekend was Mosul and they're talking about attacking. The other problem is, you have a lot of the leaders in Mosul. Well, they're not gonna be there, they're getting out because they hear they're gonna be attacked, so they're getting out, they're going some place

Dan Savage

Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend.

Daniel Tosh

I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am. It's really made the touring a lot less grueling. A lot of people get to this level and they're like, Now I do four cities in one week and they tour nonstop. I'm like, No, that sounds miserable. I'll just do two weekends a month. But whenever I'm in some awful place geographically, it's no longer that awful, because you've got the Internet and television.

David Cameron

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

Darryl Dawkins

I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.