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Quotes About Days

I know the Commies were choirboys by comparison—the Nazis at least had a modicum of appreciation for the art they plundered during their days here.
~ Bradford Morrow
I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.
~ Brandon Sanderson
IT TOOK THREE days to burn his private papers, so the legend has it.
~ Brenda Niall
The days, whether lapsing or lingering, were a stiff reality; the suppression of anxiety was a thin idea; the taste of life itself was the taste of suspense.
~ Henry James
Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to clever canvas--he drew a long breath: it was so presented to him from the first that the spell of his luxury wouldn't be broken.
~ Henry James
The weather had just become perfect; it was one of the dozen exquisite days of the English year — days stamped with a purity unknown in climates where fine weather is cheap.
~ Henry James
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods are everywhere
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.
~ George Lopez
When the former Fed chairman was in, Alan Greenspan was in, there was a saying back in those days that you called the 'Greenspan put.' Any time the treasury secretary - for the Fed chairman - said something, the market saw that as good news, and it took off.
~ Scott Garrett
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
~ Chinua Achebe
I didn't know anything about 'Star Trek.' I was doing theater a lot in those days, getting my life together. I didn't watch television. So, to come in on it was a really amazing experience.
~ Mariette Hartley
Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.
~ Valerie Plame
Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
~ Pete Hamill
Your idealism will get you killed or, worse, knighted, and you'll spend the rest of your days among fools and MPs. As for me, the chance to refuse an audience with the queen would be exquisite.
~ Stephen Hunter
I stick to a clean diet with lots of organic food and raw juices. Every now and then, I have a slice of cake or pizza, though; you have to have cheat days to keep you going.
~ Ashley Roberts
I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.
~ Barry Jenkins
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
~ Parker Posey
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
~ David Hackworth
Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division is desperatley flawed, while I multiply days without her.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.
~ Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace;
~ Bram Stoker
We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.
~ C.J. Mahaney
She said to me, This is fun. It weirdly is, I said. Maybe these are our salad days. Huh? You know. Happy. What's happy about a salad? She shrugged. Ranch, she said.
~ Terry Pratchett