1984 Archetypal Quotes & Sayings

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that. — Debora Spar

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time. — Richard Simmons

Rest, rest at the heart's core ... till joy shall overtake. — Christina Rossetti

So why am I often miserable about what goes on here? Shouldn't I be happy, contented, and glad. — Anne Frank

There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love. — Marie Dressler

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits. — Chin-Ning Chu

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there. — Grant Bowler

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall. — Peter Falk

It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy. — Paul Volcker

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air — Gunnar Staalesen

C'mon, Mary. You've seen enough of the nasty side of human nature to know that it's not always that easy. Some people take shit, some people give it." — Ernie Lindsey

I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. — John Milton

If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment. — Orson Scott Card