Allens Woodworking Quotes & Sayings

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed. — Howard Zinn

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. — Anthony Trollope

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. — John Hersey

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them. — Nell Newman

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it. — Jim Brown

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression
a kind of rudimentary theater
as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means. — John Barth

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe. — George Herbert

If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee. — Christina Dodd

Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous. — Rebecca Solnit