Tearstain Quotes & Sayings

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. — Rodney Dangerfield

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician. — Anurag Shourie

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome. — Mats Sundin

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger. — Malcolm Gladwell

Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live. — Paul Celan

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often. — Epictetus

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor. — Renee O'Connor

I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told. — Jack Falahee

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops. — Agatha Christie

When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them. — Winston S. Churchill

I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things. — Kevin Rudd

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road. — Henry Rollins

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader. — Paul S. Kemp

The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me. — Eleanor Catton