"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Secretarial and Administration The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Secretarial and Administration
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Secretarial and Administration "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Secretarial and Administration
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Secretarial and Administration A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Secretarial and Administration
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Secretarial and Administration "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Secretarial and Administration
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Secretarial and Administration What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Secretarial and Administration
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Secretarial and Administration There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Secretarial and Administration
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Secretarial and Administration The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Secretarial and Administration
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Secretarial and Administration Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Secretarial and Administration
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Secretarial and Administration Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Secretarial and Administration
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Secretarial and Administration Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Secretarial and Administration
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Secretarial and Administration Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Secretarial and Administration
