Week Quotes - Page 15

• Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks ago or three years ago? There was thing after thing. But the big ones were [dealing with] the Ebola [outbreak], the unaccompanied children. [It was] perhaps a bigger challenge than I had calculated on my yellow pad as I was thinking about this role.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

  N. T. Wright

  People, Mad, Library

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• The BBC said I could stay on air until I was named. Well, I was named within the week. So I made no broadcasts after I'd been arrested, and the BBC stopped paying me at precisely the time when I needed the money most.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Air, Made, Said

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Being on the road 33 weeks of the year, this becomes your community. You have to get to along with everybody. Racing becomes your life. You still have your friends at home, but you're with these people so much. You have to get along.

  Tanner Berryhill

  Home, Years, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.

  Patricia Mauceri

  School, Eight, Four

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In an uninterrupted world, I think we could have each of the tales finished, soup to nuts, in a week.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Thinking, Nuts, Mind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• At the end of the day, it's up to me to get the job done but it's always nice to have someone to help you get through the tough week.

  David Ragan

  Jobs, Nice, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

  Suzanne Shaw

  School, Cutting, Hands

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You have to have a military and intelligence approach to removing leadership that results in rapid frequent removals from the battlefield. It's got to be one, two a week, not just one or two every three or four months.

  Michael Morell

  Military, Two, Three

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.

  Sangeeta N. Bhatia

  Cutting, Two, Facts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It goes without saying that what a girl goes through, boys could not even comprehend. If we get the flu, we need a week. We're idiots. But what was the most powerful realization to me was, how do single mothers with a low income cope? I can't complain about my dumb life. That's what was most revelatory to me.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Girl, Mother, Powerful

  Source: collider.com

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• When we're shooting, I commute to the UK, every three weeks or so, and that's hard. That's probably the toughest, physically, on me. It's a much longer commute than I've ever had to deal with. And then, there are the challenges of this particular production. It's not the kind of show that has standing sets.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Challenges, Three, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Night, Eight, Discipline

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• Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Men, Two

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Flower, Home, Boredom

  "Ruth Westheimer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2010.

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• I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.

  Zach Parise

  Friday, College, Thinking

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• The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.

  Kevin Harvick

  Sunday, Balance, Boards

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• Stop reading the news for a week; you will see that the world will turn from red to blue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Reading, Blue, News

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• Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to a point in the future time is a great victory!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Next Week, Years, Miracle

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• Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Marine, Air, Years

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• I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.

  Randy Moss

  Sunday, Practice, Play

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• Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

  Mark Teixeira

  Running, Home, Two

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• I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze-and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.

  Karen Hughes

  Dog, Couple, Long Walks

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• When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington'.

  Kurt Busch

  Sunday, Next Week, Trying

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• If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

  Phil McGraw

  Years, Months, Should

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