Week Quotes - Page 8

There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

To me what really matters is that it shouldn't matter to you what day of the week it is.

My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.

[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.

One of the terrorist who was shot dead last week led us today to the hide out of the other 3 suspects.

I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.

This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

I'm superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.