Elerine Quotes & Sayings

It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it.
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw

Next time you're selling yourself, don't fixate only on what you achieved yesterday. Also emphasize the promise of what you could accomplish tomorrow. - 141 — Daniel H. Pink

Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and his cousin, Plantagenet Palliser: "Men must have mercenary tendencies or they would not have bred. The man who plows, so he may live, does so because, luckily, he has mercenary tendencies."

Jeffrey: "Just so, but you see I am less lucky than the plowman."

Palliser: "There is no vulgar error so vulgar, that is to say common or erroneous, as that by which men have been taught to say that mercenary tendencies are bad. The desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combines with honesty, and they cannot take you astray. — Anthony Trollope

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind. — Alfred Jarry

I love the sea because it is boundless. — Craig Thompson

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle — Carol Tavris

Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldn't give me the next line. I just walked off stage. — Maria Karnilova

There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again. — Haruki Murakami

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding — Benjamin Franklin

If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting." Ziglar — Jerry Summers

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much. — Julie Bowen

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children. — Kenneth Keniston

The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves. — Eleanor Catton

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly. — David Schwimmer