(7 quotes found)
“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike”
Cyril Connolly
“Our promise will be fulfilled in a fortnight.”
David Kyambadde
“It has been a great fortnight for me,”
Tim Henman
“He'll run somewhere in the next fortnight.”
Frank Berry
“They're going along very nicely indeed and while we're only a fortnight into it there is a real bubble around the place.”
Bob Davis
“I tried reading The Lord of the Rings books. I got about fifty pages in... I got tired of reading the word "fortnight". It was people moving along the map, and complex details about this map, and stopping and camping, and moving around, and staying for a fortnight here, and a fortnight... And I was like: 'You know, I need to go out, and play outside. I need to go feel the sunshine on my face, make friends, uhm, meet a nice girl...'”
Mike Stoklasa
“[During July 2003, Abramovich paid a 15p-per-share premium on the trading price of a fortnight previously. Even the £17m this netted Ken Bates was initially insufficient for the then chairman.] I'm told he said he wanted more money, ... and Trevor said, 'Don't be ridiculous, this is more than you could have imagined'.”
Bruce Buck
