Gossips At Work Quotes & Sayings

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak. — Demetri Martin

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art ... I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities ... tunes are merely the gossips of music ... — Edgard Varese

That was what he wanted to tell his audience at Cambridge. He divided classical satirists into two classes - fierce men starving in garrets, and renouncing popularity and circulation to dwell in tubs, and calm good-livers "who tell amusingly the kind of truth that no one has ever denied." But for the present century the right spirit, he believed, was self-satire, the ability to see humor in the constant small defeats of life, and "the power to be startled by nothing, however extravagant." The subject, in the end, turned out to be more relevant than it had seemed, as anyone could have told who had heard Eddie and Wilfred laughing together. — Penelope Fitzgerald

Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition. — Fulton J. Sheen

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend? — Abraham Lincoln

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls
the World. — Lord Byron

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. — Peter Stone

If you give all your perceptions over to the Holy Spirit, this world of perception will become the tool for your return to the truth. — Thomas Wakechild

Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said — Rick Riordan

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted. — Mike Nichols

Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to well-worn path. — Brandan Roberston

We expect betrayal from our enemies. Not from those who are supposed to care for us. — Cassandra Clare

Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice. — John-Talmage Mathis

White dew- one drop on each thorn — Yosa Buson

You are never to be alone in a bedroom with a male."
She snorted. "You have no say over who I have in my bedroom. If I want to invite the entire Miami Dolphins team into my bed and have a big orgy while covered in chocolate sauce, you have no say in that whatsoever."
The brief image set fire to his blood, but he kept his temper on simmer, unwilling to let her bait him. Still, he kind of wanted to hunt down every player on the football team and turn them into stains on the Astroturf.
"My house," he gritted out, "my rules. No chocolate NFL orgies in my keep. I think that's a reasonable request. — Larissa Ione