Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Hazelbaker

Menendez is the undisputed party boss in Hudson County, and we're going to be talking a lot about ethics reform.

John Taylor

one boss who oversees the city's day-to-day activities.

Stephen Warnock

Obviously we know where we are and what's at stake but like the boss said earlier this week we try not to look at the table too much. It's an old adage, but we've just got to keep concentrating on the next match.

Travis Bradberry

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

Kevin Spillane

Frankly, a lot of insiders think it's the most important measure on the ballot. If it wins, it will be a victory for the governor, and a real defeat for the labor union bosses and their allies.

Caitlin Moran

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

Joe Pickett

If we let the two bosses take the day off, we could get this done.

Lucian Mitchell

I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only had communication with the police--we lost our cell phones and other phones the first night.

Des Gleeson

I had a talk to him and his boss (Lee Hope) today when they called in.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Alexander the Great

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Andy Stanley

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Gregory Maguire

Happy endings are still endings.

Jodi Picoult

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

Federico Fellini

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Isaac Asimov

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Emily Giffin

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

Jonathan Tropper

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

George R. R. Martin

There are no happy endings.