I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library. . . I think that's great sometimes but we really treat it like Monday through Friday come in early. You're not late for inspiration. You're working through it no matter what is happening even if you're writing a terrible version.
I don't know about you, but I like to fall in love on Mondays. This way if things go south right away you still have the weekend.
Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday. '
Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.
I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
This person called up and said, You've got to come and take this seminar. It will completely change your life in just one weekend. And I said, Well, I don't want to completely change my life this weekend. I've got a lot of things to do on Monday.
Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail. . . . The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.
Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.
If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time. . . a minute here, five minutes there, etc.
They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.
Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.
When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other.
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.
I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.
I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, that there was to be a homosexual parade on the Monday that the Katrina came, and the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing, and I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.
Ideas come from curiosity.
During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.
So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.