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half-hour
«The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.»
«May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead»
Author: Irish Blessings
| Keywords:
dead, devil, get to, half-hour, half, heaven, hour, like the devil, the Devil, The Devil You Know
«Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
answered, half-hour, preparation, week, Wilson
«I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
half-hour, screens
«If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Children,
Social service
| Keywords:
half-hour, serviceable
«It is better to busy one's self about the smallest thing in the world than to treat a half hour as worthless»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
half-hour, smallest, the smallest, worthless
«The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
exercising, half-hour, propitious, thronged, thronging, waking