Probationary Employee Quotes & Sayings

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier. — Yiyun Li

You will learn how much someone loved you, by how quickly they dismiss you. — Shannon L. Alder

It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today. — Michael Kors

Jeff: There's a lot of history in this city...
Peanut: Translated: Old. As. Shit. — Jeff Dunham

He who listens learns more than he who speaks. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy? — Margaret Atwood

I'll stick to building ships. — George Steinbrenner

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills. — George Horace Lorimer

His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground — Dalai Lama

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing. — Terence Lewis

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return. — Peter Block