Top 1200 Two Weeks Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.

I got kicked out of Harvard after three weeks.

We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.

I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.

But you are always remembered for how many Slams you win, not weeks at No. 1.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Presently, my understanding of the fundamental principles of the theory of high-intensity training is thorough and complete - not two plus two equals three-and-a-half, but two plus two equals four! Heretofore, I would only occasionally have clients gain 10 to 20 pounds in a month or 30 to 40 pounds in three to four months. Now such is no longer the exception , but the rule!

A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break.

You don't talk playoffs a few weeks before training camp.

The White House released documents it claims validates the president's (National Guard) service ... When deciphered the documents showed that in a one-year period, 1972 and 1973, Bush received credit for nine days of active National Guard service. The traditional term of service then and now for the National Guard is one weekend a month and two full weeks a year, meaning that Bush's nine-day stint qualifies him only for the National Guard's National Guard. That's the National Guard's National Guard, an Army of None.

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

I feel like being an actor it is a great way to do your job and be a parent, because you have a lot of freedom. You have a job and then the job ends and than maybe you don't have another job for a while or maybe you chose not have another job for a while. For an actor, it's like maybe you don't see your kid for two weeks while you are filming but then you might have three months off where you are at home every day and picking him up from school. I find it's a great thing.

Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.

I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

I'd seen the movie 'Paranormal Activity' and was convinced for weeks that it was real.

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

People who take more than 2 weeks to plan a wedding are pussies

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good.

George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.

Global Warming Snowstorm Algore, paralyzing the upper Midwest two weeks before winter. Every time he shows up someplace, every time, it's almost comical, every time Al Gore shows up someplace there's either an outbreak of weather that is the exact opposite of what he's talking about, he never does seem to get embarrassed. That's why they stopped calling it global warming and now call it climate change so that virtually every perceived abnormality can be said to be caused by climate change.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

Grace Bell lived in Belhaven, North Carolina her entire life, all 100 years of her life. Just a few weeks ago Republicans challenged her voter registration status and tried to remove her from the voter rolls. Now Grace got her voter registration reinstated. And you better believe she`s going to vote. But this 100-year old woman wasn`t alone in being targeted. The list of voters Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic. That didn`t happen by accident.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

The last few weeks are always the hardest during any fight camp.

I like Chinese and Indian food, but only every couple of weeks.

For the longest time, I was just playing music and not really expecting any success - just kind of doing it because I liked doing it. While doing that, I went on a lot of shitty tours, playing to nobody, so I think it makes me appreciate it. Our band the New Pornographers have been popular for a few years now, but it still shocks me. I remember thinking we were hugely popular when we sold 15,000 records, and now this one sold 30,000 in two weeks. I'm grateful for the whole thing.

After the motorcycle trips I take for one or two weeks, I have trouble getting back into a car, because I feel claustrophobic with all of that metal around me, and I can't see anything. I feel seriously dangerous in a car after riding on a bike, because your field of vision is so closed in. And then I think about all these little bourgeois people driving around in their cars - it's actually hideous. It cramps you on the head, it cramps you on the side, it puts you in a box on wheels... It's a terrible experience. Motorcycles are about opening the field of vision.

Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

Do you ever have one of those weeks where you know nothings gonna go right?

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

A footballer in three weeks earns what a dancer makes in a year.

There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen.

Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

I went to my first CMA Music Fest when I was 14 and waited in line for two hours to meet two people: Taylor Swift and Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum. It's very ironic but not accidental that those two people refer to me as their 'little sister' now.

We did 'Doctor Who' for forty-eight weeks a year but I loved it.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.

My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.

I'm best when I'm feral, when I don't wash or shave or change my trousers for a couple of weeks.

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.