Myblinn Quotes & Sayings

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee. — Barten Holyday

If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive. — Sidney Coleman

If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. — Henry David Thoreau

This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that. — Sparky Anderson

We dig our graves with our teeth. — Fannie Hurst

Tilly was downcast; as with all perfectionists, it was the detail others might not notice that destroyed for her the pleasure of achievement. — Elspeth Huxley

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly