Motifiles Quotes & Sayings

If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities. — Korky Paul

Your work is your identity, your life is your message. — Srivyal Vuyyuri

Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research. — Richard Layard, Baron Layard

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. — Alice Walker

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign. — Donna Shalala

Grassley ordered the APA to disclose how much of its income was drug money. The answer turned out to be a lot - according to the Times, nearly one-third of the organization's $62.5 million annual revenue41 in 2006. Some of it came from advertising, but much of it went to educational programs in which drug companies tutored doctors attending APA conferences in the fine points of prescribing their drugs. — Gary Greenberg

My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character. — Thomm Quackenbush

I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game. — Adam Rapp