Days

Famous quotes containing the word days:

    “The second day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Two turtle doves,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 4–6)

    “One of the necessary qualifications of an efficient business man in these days of industrial literature seems to be the ability to write, in clear and idiomatic English, a 1,000-word story on how efficient he is and how he got that way.... It seems that the entire business world were devoting its working hours to the creation of a school of introspective literature.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “I have heard it said that it took Messrs. Shipman and Hymer [the playwrights] just three- and-a-half days to write their drama. I should like to know what they were doing during the three days.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)