Monday Quotes

• If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Great
  • May
  • Night

• If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Believe
  • Sunday
  • Saturday

• Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the opening of the market - at home and around the world - and on getting back into a business frame of mind after the weekend.

  

  Nancy Dunnan
  • World
  • Good
  • Mind

• I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

  

  John Waters
  • America
  • Hate
  • Fall

• We lost one of one of the great leaders of our lifetime on Monday. She was a true friend of America, and a champion of freedom. We're going to ensure that Margaret Thatcher’s legacy is honored by the United States government in a way commensurate with her enormous achievements.

  

  John Boehner
  • Great
  • She
  • America

• I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Black
  • Stock
  • Monday

• I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Guy
  • Wednesday
  • Tuesday

• Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

  

  Adora Svitak
  • America
  • Lost
  • Learning

• I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Bad
  • Monday

• I should think you could be gladder on Monday morning than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

  

  Eleanor Porter
  • Morning
  • Week
  • Gladder

• Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, interviewer (1998‐03-02). First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?. Retrieved on 2013-06-02.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Free
  • Monday

• At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Friends
  • Son
  • Athlete

• Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

  

  Frank Gifford
  • Night
  • Football
  • Monday

• I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Holiday
  • Monday
  • Thursday

• You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

  

  JJ Feild
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Talent

• People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

  

  Casey Stoner
  • People
  • Sunday
  • Competitors

• For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

  

  John Sununu
  • Good
  • Positive
  • Weekend

• And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Monday

• I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Dream
  • Saturday
  • Monday

• We always feel better in anticipation. You don't think about something and think 'Aw, it's gonna be shitty.' NO! You say 'This is gonna be the greatest weekend ever! Sonuvabitch!' And then, by Monday, you're throwing up and you're thinking 'You know, I always thought those guys were pricks!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Weekend

• My agent said that every Monday after an episode of 'Entourage,' at the staff meeting at the agency, that's all they do is talk about the episode the night before.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • Night
  • Monday

• I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Night
  • College
  • Football

• As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Stop
  • Training
  • Boy

• Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Seventies
  • Thirds
  • Towers

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