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Quotes About Days

I saw no reason I could not live out my days in Upper Biddleton as a ruined woman. After all, that sort of reputation would hardly get in the way of my fossil collecting. But St. Justin was most insistent.
~ Amanda Quick
I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
~ Amy Hempel
Whiskey grunted. By his count, he and Patrick had six days to go before he hauled the kid out by his ear on field work and let Fly Bait plan the destruction of all testosterone-based land mammals on general principal.
~ Amy Lane
I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!
~ Alice Waters
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.
~ Joseph C. Lincoln
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
~ Jonathan Raban
Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.
~ William Hague
And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
~ Davy Jones
I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.
~ Alessia Cara
Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
~ Lee Child
Light helps the body predict the future: it's a sign of how our environment will change in the coming hours and days, and our bodies prepare themselves accordingly.
~ Maria Konnikova
I went for two days to the Delhi Campus of the University of London and did not go back again.
~ Ritesh Agarwal
I think a certain amount of depression is sort of a normal state of mind to have. Deep depression is another story - and I wouldn't say I've been quite there, but you know I have been quite down at times, I have not wanted to leave the house for days on end.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
The dog wagged his tail, happy, it seemed, to find it still worked properly. He was not frightened, or glum. He had tortured a stupid cat, twice, and torn up not one fence, but two; it might have been one of the greatest days of his life, and the week hadn't even gotten started good.
~ Rick Bragg
As Iggy later recalled, in a typical week they'd spend two days drunk, two days nursing their hangovers, and three days straight—"which is a pretty good balance for musicians.
~ Rob Sheffield
During the days that followed our return, we were all, I think, seized by a veritable delirium. We wished to speak, to be heard at last. And yet, it was impossible. We had hardly begun to speak and we were choking.
~ Robert Antelme
I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.
~ Robert Bly
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.
~ Robert Brault
There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.
~ Robert Brault
How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.
~ L.M. Montgomery
In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day
~ L.M. Montgomery
The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days.
~ Larry McMurtry
Haste makes waste, but a lazy man'd rather get his work done fast than do it himself...all it saves is time, son. And what good is time, with nothing to do? You want to sit and twiddle your thumbs, all these stormy winter days?
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder