Job Overtime Quotes & Sayings

... The group is a wonderful mix of people - a microcosm, I believe, of what's really out there. Listen, Lucy, you do my job for a while and here's what you learn. No one is normal. Everybody struggles with something. Marital problems, depression, codependency, maybe a looming fascination with shoes or leather bags that keeps her working overtime shifts to pay off her debt. Whatever. Stop thinking everyone else has it together. It's not true. Precious few people have life figured out. 'Normal' just isn't normal anymore. — Ann Wertz Garvin

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? — Megan Hart

We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen. — William F. Laurance

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing. — Leila Janah

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons. — Kurt Cobain

At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually ... and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves — Robin Bielman

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!! ... is how I climax. — T. J. Miller

There is nothing like the truth to make those hiding from it extremely angry. — Matthew Akers

I had a dream I was in heaven standing at the gates. They shined so brightly ass they were gold and reflecting all the light. I could see you there just on the other side so I screamed your name. But the angels, they wouldn't let me in. They wouldn't let me have you, so I stuck dinomite to the locks and blew the gates away. I blew the angels away just so I could hold you for a single second more before hell ripped me away. — Kerri E. Lorenz

To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.' — Ivan Turgenev

You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your hours. I just make it clear that I trust you to get your job done in the time allotted. And then I hand you twice as much work as you can reasonably do in a 40-hour week. — Nick Hanauer

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. — Sonny Rollins

That evening, getting up from the table, she had crossed the invisible boundary beyond which things start working by themselves. — Paolo Giordano

I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes? — Jennifer Estep

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. — Aldo Leopold

When you're part of an illegal government conspiracy, your actual job description gets hazy. [...] If you're working off the books, but the books don't officially exist in the first place, have you really gone rogue, or are you just putting in unpaid overtime? — Craig Schaefer