Week End Quotes:

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

- Julian Fellowes

topic: Week, Maggie, Ends, Abbey, Week End

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

- Winston Churchill

source: Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

topic: War, Leader, Feelings, Wartime, Week End

When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.

- Magdalena Frackowiak

source: "Model Hot Seat: Magdalena Frackowiak" by Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. September 11, 2009.

topic: Girl, Fashion, Missing, Week End, Fashion Week

Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

- Walter J. Phillips

topic: Art, Integrity, Independence, Ideal Life, Daily Grind

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

- Will Rogers

topic: Promise, Done, Politics, Week End

Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.

- Claude C. Hopkins

topic: Writing, Dollars, Scarcity, Week End

The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Summer, Home, Successful, Week End, Freezer