Masdonna Quotes & Sayings

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom ... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done. — Hyman G. Rickover

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day. — Angela Carter

In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast. — David Frum

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another. — Madonna

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. — Henry Rollins