Helena Morrissey Quotes & Sayings

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure. — Warren Buffett

Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed. — Charlotte Featherstone

My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace! — Victor Hugo

One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions. — Winston S. Churchill

Never allow your limitations to be a stronghold in your life; they're only but a passing phase. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face. — Henry Rollins

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert. — Gustave Flaubert

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up ... published. — J.A. Konrath

I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change. — Michael Meacher

BLAM! BLOOEY!
Twin thunderstorms struck Chesapeake Bay at about the same hour two weeks apart in the last spring and summer of the eighth decade of the twentieth century of the Christian era and bracketed our story like artillery zeroing in. — John Barth