Stupid Workplace Quotes & Sayings

It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do. — Madeline Zima

The Book of Mormon is so good it makes me f**king angry. — Jon Stewart

I had thrived in Miss Popham's class because she was in charge of her own curriculum. She had a wonderful idea and freedom to teach as she wished. I still think hers is the best way to organize a literature class in high school if the goal is to encourage wide reading and the love of books. My own best teaching in high school reflected my attempts to replicate the spirit of that 1943 class — James Gray

My wife says that if people reach conclusions as to what I am like based on what they see from me on the pitch they would say I am a guy who is always annoyed, always in a bad mood, they'd say what must it be like to live with me. There are two of me, two different people. — Luis Suarez

It's cool. No sword. See? No sword. Calm thoughts. Sea grass. Mama cows. Vegetarianism. — Rick Riordan

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives. — Tayari Jones

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered by Chomsky, argues that this is only explicable if certain deep, universal features of this competence are innate characteristics of the human brain. Biologically speaking, this hypothesis of an inheritable capability to learn any language means that it must somehow be encoded in the DNA of our chromosomes. Should this hypothesis one day be verified, then lingusitics would become a branch of biology. — Niels Kaj Jerne

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?' — Prince Philip

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel. — Dalai Lama

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame. — Howard Coble

The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy. — Michael Sorkin

The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor. — Chris Osgood

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view. — Douglas Adams

And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly. — Marco Polo

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day. — Agatha Christie