Pensionable Employee Quotes & Sayings

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself. — Madeleine Thien

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger.
-Numair Salmalin — Tamora Pierce

A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat. — Randall Munroe

We can be anybody we wanna be. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Could we do both? — Kim Stanley Robinson

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. — Albert Claude

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work. — Patrick Schwarzenegger

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow. — Kirby Larson

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. — Gustave Flaubert