Sunday Quotes - Page 26

• The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

  Nick Hornby

  Sex, Dad, Fall

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.152, Penguin

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• People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

  Jack McDevitt

  Reading, School, Thinking

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• John Travolta, who said, My Saturday night fever was nothing compared to my Sunday morning rash. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Morning, Night, Fever

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• What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine.

  Gunter Grass

  Father, Epic, Heaven

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• For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

  Potter Stewart

  Forgotten, Togetherness, Interest

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• I'm very religious, you know. Now, OK, if by 'religious', you mean that I go to church every Sunday, read the bible faithfully, and I listen to Debbie Boone, umm, I'm not religious in that sense... But if by 'religious' you mean that I love others and try to help them whenever possible... Again, no. But if by 'religious' you mean that I like to eat coleslaw... Yeah, OK, OK!

  Emo Philips

  Religious, Mean, Church

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• I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.

  Richard Jeni

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered whey they die but they're not getting up early on a Sunday.

  Richard Jeni

  Spiritual, Mean, Up Early

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• The great thing about being up early on a Sunday is nothing.

  Doug Benson

  Up Early, Great Things

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• They used to beat me up after Sunday School, I used to get beat up... yeah, that's a nice little thank you from Jesus.

  Dane Cook

  Jesus, Nice, School

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• On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.

  Craig Kilborn

  Islands, President, Prime

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• People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.

  Henry Blodget

  Sports, Football, Night

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

  Kristen Bell

  Comforting, Nachos, Doritos

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• I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

  Bono

  Mother, Father, Waiting

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

  Jo Brand

  Fun, Dad, Church

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• Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

  Julie Burchill

  Ideas, Clothes, Outdated

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• Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Friday, Weekend

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• If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

  Sophia Bush

  Dog, Lazy, Couches

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• I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, “Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.”

  Jimmy Carter

  Book, Home, Years

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

  Raymond Chandler

  Boston, Cities, Made

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

  Diablo Cody

  Fake People, Real, Night

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• But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

  Miley Cyrus

  Church, Going To Church

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• Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Christian, Wall, School

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Cousin, Children

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Crazy, Ocean, Book

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