Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Chris Nicolosi

We were trying not to be frivolous with the borough's money.

Gail Wilson

He had to wait a lot, sit and wait. He was always trying to improve himself. These were not frivolous books.

Dick DeGuerin

I would have told you a month ago we'd be in trial by now, but that was before Ronnie Earle pulled his shenanigans with his frivolous appeals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Van Cleve

When we met those families, the wedding planning all seemed a little frivolous at that point,

Freida Pinto

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Douglas Coupland

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

Tom DeLay

This is a frivolous indictment, ... I think it will be over and over very soon. I will go back to be majority leader.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Van Coleman

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.

George Black

We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.