Weeks Quotes
1412 quotes by 1225 authors
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I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even…
— Isabel Allende
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They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life…
— Harper Lee
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam…
— Frank McCourt
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And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every…
— Scott Westerfeld
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A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless…
— Oscar Wilde
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As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made…
— William Trevor
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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so…
— E. M. Forster
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But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to…
— Charles Bukowski
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October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
— Keith Donohue
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of…
— Dave Eggers
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We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
— Dave Eggers
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Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years.…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to…
— David Levithan
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There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always…
— Nicholas Sparks
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This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a…
— Anne Ursu
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I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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