Hobsons Apply Yourself Quotes & Sayings

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days. — David Talbot

There was anger for a while, and then there was something else, that was like silence but had an energy and violence of its own. — Rachel Joyce

Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends. — Kenneth Cole

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. — Brad Meltzer

If you kill what you love, you're damned. — Stephen King

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water. — Herodotus

You will only thrive when you are allowed to be what you are. — Chris Dee

Des Grieux was like all Frenchmen, that is, cheerful and amiable when it was necessary and profitable, and insufferably dull when the necessity to be cheerful and amiable ceased. A Frenchman is rarely amiable by nature; he is always amiable as if on command, out of calculation. If, for instance, he sees the necessity of being fantastic, original, out of the ordinary, then his fantasy, being most stupid and unnatural, assembles itself out of a priori accepted and long-trivialized forms. The natural Frenchman consists of a most philistine, petty, ordinary positiveness
in short, the dullest being in the world. In my opinion, only novices, and Russian young ladies in particular, are attracted to Frenchmen. Any decent being will at once notice and refuse to put up with this conventionalism of the pre-established forms of salon amiability, casualness, and gaiety. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A little bird'll be here with the morning." "Oh?" said the rose-petal lady. "Tomorrow morning?" "That's the only morning coming." "It can't be," the rose-petal lady said. "It's too soon." "No it ain't. Right on time. — Toni Morrison

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are. — Desmond Tutu

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity. — William Blackstone

Ingrid and myself in a dual costume designing role to Steven, and he went for it (as I was to discover later, Steven favored a lot of dual situations). — John Desautels

The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy. — Andrew Vachss