Sunday Quotes - Page 18

• Think about for a minute what your body goes through out there. On a Friday night, you have a steak and then Saturday morning, you get up and have some eggs and some pancakes. Then Sunday, you're on 'Survivor' and suddenly you have nothing.

  Jeff Probst

  Friday, Morning, Night

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• Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.

  Neal Stephenson

  Morning, Night, Light

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.21, Spectra

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• [As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

  James D. Watson

  Morning, Father, Men

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• My friend goes through the wedding section of the Sunday paper looking at the brides-to-be and picks out a Dog-of-the-Week. I think that's cruel toward women. Myself, I look to see who shows the most cleavage.

  David Henry

  Dog, Thinking, Looks

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• I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

  Jonathan Swift

  Prayer, Journey, Land

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 2

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• Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.

  Nathan Deal

  Church, Vote, Republican

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• I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Professors, Novel

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• I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

  S. J. Perelman

  Inspirational, Pearls, Evening

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• Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!

  Carl Tuttle

  Heart, Names, Praise

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• The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.

  Tom Robbins

  Morning, Fear, Pregnancy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.21, Bantam

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Night, Bed, Levels

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• Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.

  Richard Rohr

  New Beginnings, Ashes, Lasts

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• Not only will I beat you tonight...I'll beat you this Sunday and become World Heavyweight Champion!

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Wwe, Champion, Heavyweights

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• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.

  Nick Flynn

  Heart, Bye, Mountain Ranges

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• Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Thinking, Bells

  George Herbert (1867). “The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations: With A Priest to the Temple, Or, The Country Parson”, p.14

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• On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

  Joel Osteen

  Home, Next Day, Giving

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

  Denis McDonough

  Community, Afternoon, Territory

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• I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

  Joy Behar

  Art, Book, Style

  "Joy Behar Discusses HLN Show: Wants Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sees Show As Sunday Times". Interview with Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

  April Bowlby

  Interesting, Santa, Fleas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

  David Boies

  Kids, Years, Paper

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• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  Foxy Brown

  Friday, Character, Night

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• I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.

  Katy B

  Mom, Memories, Home

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• I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

  Billy Childish

  Jobs, Dinner, Painting

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