Work First Play Later Quotes & Sayings

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across. — Anita Roddick

If you don't speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don't really exist — Anuranjita Kumar

We should be fully engaged with life, each individual should reach out beyond himself. Being merely present isn't enough. Being a mere witness is tantamount to being dead. That's what he meant to say. It doesn't matter if you stay in one spot, but your life should reach out if it is not to be a mere animal existence, — Jose Saramago

Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost. — Charles Lindbergh

Vorobyaninov, I've got a pressing artistic task for you,' he whispered. 'Go over to the exit from the first-class hallway and stand there. If somebody approaches, start singing, loudly.'
The old man was taken aback. 'But what should I sing?'
'Not "God Save the Tsar," that's for sure! — Ilya Ilf

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.' — Larry David

A kiss is like a fight, with mouths. — Kristen Schaal

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience. — James Gray

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina. — Jim Hunt

I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult. — Walter Millis

Life, they showed me, could go on no matter how unpredictable, no matter how unfair. — Stephanie Madoff Mack

If this was her chance to decide who she was, who she wanted to be, then the first decision was an easy one. She would never be like Queen Levana. — Marissa Meyer

We're all allowed to be scared and pee in our pans once in a while. — Cameron Jace

Televangelist Pat Robertson also declared, on a platform that on defence and many other topics was well to the right of Attilla the Hun. — Thomas Ferguson

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles 'in advance' a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up. — Michel Foucault