Mallisters Quotes & Sayings

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems. — Hugh Laurie

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me. — Joey Lauren Adams

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. — Malcolm Forbes

Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement. — Amy Shearn

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance. — Daniel De Leon

But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going up - more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonuses - and I think it's appropriate. — Eleanor Clift

Here's the thing: I'm not beautiful. I mean, I'm a perfectly normal-looking Jewish guy. My face has never been my fortune, nor has my body ... physical beauty has never been part of my equation. It's just not on my shopping list. — David Rakoff

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. — Maggie Gallagher

Nobody ever fails in Yoga ... It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
When one is fully matured, realization is explosive. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of. — Neil Gaiman

I think people desperately want to feel love. — Gary Chapman

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars. — Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere