Pips Island Quotes & Sayings

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. — Robert Chambers

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. — Sarah Dessen

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered. — Marlene Dietrich

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet. — Keith Richards

It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame. — Blaine Nye

One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India.. best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India. — Ratan Tata

Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate. — Lev Grossman