Franchise Central Quotes & Sayings

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ... — Mark Twain

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration. — Ray Ozzie

Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign. — David Rolf

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have. — Paul Walker

Things are seldom what they seem. — W.S. Gilbert

For as I pass through death's door let me sing my favorite melody and finish it on the other side. — Johnny Flora

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property. — Max Stirner

One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right ... This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don't think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do ... Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world ... — Rick Santorum

If I did not move and dance between them the three would turn to stone, for they are passive [ ... ] They would fall asleep if I lay still somewhere. Henry, Gonzalo, Hugh. [ ... ] It is only my dancing, my dancing which animates them. I slide out of Gonzalo's bed like a snake. I slide out of Henry's bed. I slide out of Hugh's bed. [ ... ]
I dance untrammeled - return to each full of the space in between, that change of air. Dancing, I find my flame and my joy, because I dance, slide, run, to the boat, to quai de Passy, to Villa Seurat; I keep the wind in the folds of my dress, the rain on my hair, and light in my eyes. — Anais Nin

I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game. — Chauncey Billups

Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not.
'Ah!' he said.
'?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?'
Ashe ignored the eyebrows.
...
Mr Beach's eyebrows were still mutely urging him to reveal all, but Ashe directed his gaze at that portion of the room which Mr Beach did not fill. He was hanged if he was going to let himself be hypnotized by a pair of eyebrows into incriminating himself. — P.G. Wodehouse

Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about my grandmother's vagina. Not here, at her funeral. In a church. While i'm doing a reading from the Bible. — Meg Cabot

If love finds you again, don't fight it. Don't let grief hold you back. Love is a risk. There are no guarantees. But, in the end, it is always, always worth it. — J.L. Berg

Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one. — Nigella Lawson