Source: The Book Thief
“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) American singer and songwriter
On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
“Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week”
Julian Huxley (1887–1975) English biologist, philosopher, author
"Prof. Huxley Predicts 2-Day Working Week" The New York Times (17 November 1930) p. 42
Context: Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.
“Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) English novelist and journalist
Prologue
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
“Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.”
Art Buchwald (1925–2007) journalist, humorist, United States Marine
A humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
Leaving Home (1995).
William Feller (1906–1970) Croatian-American mathematician
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter II, Elements Of Combinatorial Analysis, p. 32.
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
A Leaf of Spearmint, III <br class="br"> Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)
“Our characters change as world eras change, as our features change, slowly from day to day.”
James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Arthur's commentary
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Our characters change as world eras change, as our features change, slowly from day to day. Nothing is sudden in this world. Inch hy inch; drop by drop; line by line. Even when great convulsions shatter down whole nations, cities, monarchies, systems, human fortunes, still they are but the finish, the last act of the same long preparing, slowly devouring change, in which the tide of human affairs for ever ebbs and flows, without haste, and without rest.
John Rogers writer, comedian and producer from the United States
In an "Ephemera" blog post http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html<br>This also appears in Ch. 10 of The Value of Nothing (2010) by Raj Patel, who later acknowledged it was a borrowed joke in "Citation Alert!" http://rajpatel.org/2010/01/21/citation-alert/ (21 January 2010) at rajpatel.org.
