Strenuously Working Quotes & Sayings

I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form. — Matt Schulze

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there. — Tracy K. Smith

I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand. — Ellis Peters

Astonishing. In the morning, when she sat working at that table of correspondence, silhouetted by sunlight ...
Her hair truly did look like an octopus.
It was the way she wore it, he thought. Or maybe the way it wore her. It all sat perched atop her head in that big, inky blob. And no matter how strenuously she pinned it, dark, heavy curls worked loose on all sides, like tentacles.
Of course, it was an entrancing, strangely erotic octopus. Ransom worried this might be how fetishes developed. — Tessa Dare

My heart is breaking because I'm alone. I know I have Wyatt right now, but that will change. I'll go back to Philadelphia and be a single mom. It's — Corinne Michaels

In love the other is important; in lust you are important — Osho

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent. — Hal Roach

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it. — Bill Vaughan

Otto Cone as a man of seventy-plus years jumped into an open lift shaft and died. Now this was a subject which Alicia Cone, who would readily discuss the most taboo matters refused to touch upon. Why does a survivor of the camps live forty years then complete the job the monsters didn't get done? Does great evil eventually triumph no matter how strenuously it is resisted? Does it leave a sliver of ice in the blood working its way through until it reaches the heart? Or worse, can a man's death be incompatible with his life? Alicia, who's first response on hearing of her father's death had been fury, flung such questions as these at her mother, who stone-faced beneath a broad-brimmed black hat said only, You have inherited his lack of restraint my dear. — Salman Rushdie

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. — C.S. Lewis

If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

I drink red wine on ice to water it down. — Diane Keaton

she stayed inside for what felt like days but — Hugh Howey

there isn't a slightest wound that doesn't hurt in the heart. — Sandra Pulido

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers. — Rainer Maria Rilke

One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not. — Bernard Marcus

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game. — Tom Seaver