Professionalising Family Business Quotes & Sayings

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself. — Loren Eiseley

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs. — Ilya Yashin

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. — Joshua Slocum

Some objects seem to disappear immediately while others never want to leave. Here is a small black plastic gizmo with a serious demeanor that turns up regularly, like a politician at public functions. It seems to be an "integral part," a kind of switch with screw holes so that it can be attached to something larger. Nobody knows what. This thing's use has been forgotten but it looks so important that no one is willing to throw it in the trash. It survives by bluff, like certain insects that escape being eaten because of their formidable appearance. — Louis Jenkins

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. — Noah Baumbach

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason — Francis Bacon

Arthur thought about this, and decided quite rationally that lying was by far the best approach to take. — Graham Moore

I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with. — Traci Bingham

Did Cap'n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny."
"Yeah," I said, "that's exactly how I'd describe him. — Joel N. Ross

With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care. — John Dryden

At Newsweek only girls with college degrees
and we were called "girls" then
were hired to sort and deliver the mail, humbly pushing our carts from door to door in our ladylike frocks and proper high-heeled shoes. If we could manage that, we graduated to "clippers," another female ghetto. Dressed in drab khaki smocks so that ink wouldn't smudge our clothes, we sat at the clip desk, marked up newspapers, tore out releveant articles with razor-edged "rip sticks," and routed the clips to the appropriate departments. "Being a clipper was a horrible job," said writer and director Nora Ephron, who got a job at Newsweek after she graduated from Wellesley in 1962, "and to make matters worse, I was good at it. — Lynn Povich

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others. — Mark Twain

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning. — Blaise Cendrars

A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot. — Frederick Lenz

If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles. — Zach Galifianakis