Joiners Workbench Quotes & Sayings

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. — Linford Christie

That's because superstition has it that the first person who gets up from a party of thirteen will die?"
"Precisely. I believe Agatha Christie even wrote a mystery about it. — David Baldacci

There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them ... — Ayn Rand

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? — Jeanette Winterson

I am an angel,' said the voice. 'Let me in and I shall tell you a secret that only you must know.' She opened the window and let him in. In order not to frighten her, he had assumed the appearance of a young man, just like one of the young men who spoke to her by the well. — Anonymous

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood. — Steven Saylor

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! — Charles Stross

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. — Cormac McCarthy

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work. — Kathe Kollwitz

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister. — Tony Abbott

In consistency lies the power — Gloria Copeland

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside. — Swami Vivekananda