Category: Quotations

The nature of work itself has changed.  Many of us, for better and worse, work in the office, at home, in hotels, at Starbucks.Groove Networks CEO Ray Ozzie, during a conference call last week (7 March 2005) to discuss his collaboration-software company’s acquisition by Microsoft

The most heated bit of letter-writing can be a wonderful safety valve, providing the wastebasket is somewhere nearby.Bill Wilson

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.Hugh Mulligan

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends.  That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first.Paramahansa Yogananda

“… People of both sexes, whose looks are very indifferent at the beginning, may appear almost handsome on futher acquaintance.  A well-informed mind, nice manners and a gentle nature — all of these are much more likely to contribute to a husband’s happiness than mere transient beauty.”Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Pg.…

… Strange found himself subject to that peculiarly uncomfortable Natural Law which states that whenever a person arrives at a place where he is not known, then wherever he stands he is sure to be in the way.Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Pg. 291

“My dear Lascelles,” cried Drawlight, “what nonsense you talk!  Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to expain as failure — it is, after all, what every body does all the time.”Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Pg. 77