Businessballs Quotes & Sayings

While it is hard to fathom who we are and how we are to live when public chaos shatters our routine, the slow-motion pain of each private death and cataclysm we endure is harder. Each slams us off our feet, yet we have agreed to pretend to be fine again at some point, ideally as soon as possible, so as not to seem self-indulgent or embarrass anybody. Then people can get on with their lives. — Anne Lamott

I think women are often taken for granted. — Sheila Johnson

No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels. — Sheryl Sandberg

At other places management says, 'Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?' Lewie was not only willing to bet the ranch. He was willing to hire people and let them bet the ranch, too. His attitude was: 'Sure, what the fuck, it's only a ranch. — Michael Lewis

I've been doing comedy and paying my bills. — Mike Epps

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally. — Jackie Schaffer

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE. — Carew Papritz

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. — Andy Warhol

And then, as he ripped back the shower curtains and stared down at the hacked and twisted thing sprawled on the floor of the stall, he realized that Mother had used her keys. — Robert Bloch

From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans. — Efim Geller

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet. — Mark Twain

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed;
Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme;
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost,
But climb. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that! — Barbara Fialho