Sloppy Leftovers Quotes & Sayings

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. — Jack Handy

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven't the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven't the slightest idea what it is. ... Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time. — Seth Grahame-Smith

And there it was, pushing up through all the worries: hope. — Kiera Cass

I don't get into the favorite songs thing, because so many speak to different parts of my life, but the music in the '90s is just unbeatable. — Brandy Norwood

When you are happy with what you have, you are the happiest. — Lailah Gifty Akita

On the morning of September 17, together with Mrs. Washington and my three children, I started for Atlanta. I felt a good deal as I suppose a man feels when he is on his way to the gallows. In passing through the town of Tuskegee I met a white farmer who lived some distance out in the country. In a jesting manner this man said: "Washington, you have spoken before the Northern white people, the Negroes in the South, and to us country white people in the South; but Atlanta, to-morrow, you will have before you the Northern whites, the Southern whites, and the Negroes all together. I am afraid that you have got yourself in a tight place." This farmer diagnosed the situation correctly, but his frank words did not add anything to my comfort. — Booker T. Washington

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise. — Peter Senge

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. — Grandma Moses

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life. — David Boreanaz

You don't own people; if they want to cheat, let them do that. — M.F. Moonzajer

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. — George Lucas

Every beauty
whether of sight, sound, or taste
has a dimension of the metaphysical. Beauty ... moves us so powerfully by making us present at the creation of a world, bringing us into existence. — Patricia Storace