Backfield Collision Quotes & Sayings

Supermarket mandatory smile. In the late 1990s, Safeway, the second largest supermarket chain in the U.S., instructed its store employees to smile and greet customers with direct eye contact. In 1998, USA Today ("Safeway's Mandatory Smiles Pose Danger, Workers Say") reported that 12 female employees had filed grievances over the chain's smile-and-eye-contact policy, after numerous male customers reportedly had propositioned them for dates. Commenting on the grievances, a Safeway official stated, "We don't see it [the males' sexual overtures] as a direct result of our initiative. — David B. Givens

What I write is not for little girls. — Theophile Gautier

Childhood reading is so important. — Kristi Yamaguchi

And the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight. — Mo Yan

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock. — Marcus Brigstocke

Be prepared to scramble right from the start. — Jack Burke Jr.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors. — James Nesbitt

To examine the claim that rewards are effective at altering behavior, we pose three questions: First, for whom are they effective? Second, for how long are they effective? And third, at what, exactly, are they effective? (I have already hinted at a fourth question - At what cost are they effective? - but — Alfie Kohn

If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead. — Bernard Cornwell

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks. — Ron White

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. — Robert Staughton Lynd