Chasing Maverick Quotes & Sayings

Are you going to promote every man that flirts with me?"
"no. I'll fire whoever does it next. — Whitney Gracia Williams

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. — Harold Nicolson

I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're going to bring hair and makeup, it'll take about five hours.' And I said, 'Well, if it was Ian McEwan, would it take about five hours? Would there be hair and makeup? Cause if that's not the case, then don't bring the hair and makeup.' So, it's fascinating that they just assume: it's a young woman, she must want to be photographed for five hours. She must have nothing better to do than delight in trying on all your shoes. But it's not the case. — Zadie Smith

In my breaking through ... I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature ... for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same. — Meister Eckhart

Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. — Shoghi Effendi

I really wanted something that could make a statement about what we were doing and the life we were living in society, and the shows that push the boundaries, in those ways, are shows on cable, particularly networks like Showtime. — Josh Lawson

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson

To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time. — Wyndham Lewis

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart. — Lew Wallace

How does someone find out between lunch and dinner one day that they aren't who they thought they were? — Jason F. Wright

My style of play won't ever change, because I enjoy that aggressive style of golf. It allows me to play my best. When I attack pins, I stay more focused. I get more into the shot and, consequently, I get more out of the shot and out of my game by playing aggressive. — Phil Mickelson