Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Carlos Fuentes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Carlos Fuentes

In literature, you know only what you imagine

Carlos Fuentes

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

Carlos Fuentes

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

Carlos Fuentes

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

Carlos Fuentes

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Carlos Fuentes

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Carlos Fuentes

I need, therefore I imagine.

Jon Huntsman

We want our children to do the things they would do wherever we lived. They have friends who come to visit and they are busy with their own plans,

John Deane

We have plenty of targets to keep us busy and having our own drilling equipment and drill crew provides us with enormous flexibility in the field. It's a recipe for success that few other companies can match.

Source Unknown

The problem with relationships are that people are so busy falling in love that they forget to fall in like.

Avril Lavigne

When I'm home I go out with my friends. I go shopping, I go to clubs and I go to movies, ... There's just a certain way you have to do it, and I know how to handle myself and I know how to take care of myself and where I can and can't go and when I can and can't go. It's all do-able. I still have a life. I may have to work a little harder at it, but that's totally fun because most of the time I'm busy anyway.

Brent Weeks

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

Rick Carlisle

We know any win we can get is really critical, especially on the road. We have a very busy month in terms of frequency of games. We're going to have to continue to hang in and fight every night and give ourselves a chance. We're right in the midst of this thing. There's a lot that's going to be going on over the next 25-30 games. You're going to see a lot of jockeying and a lot of position changes.

Sharon Wilson

Wait 'til I leave here, and then it'll hit me. Right now we're just so busy moving, though, so I don't have time to think about it.

David Giuntoli

I don't drink now, I'm too busy. It sucks.

Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

The fall couture presentations in Paris are usually my favorite moment on the fashion calendar: beautiful weather, a busy rather than manic schedule, and, let's face it, seeing the artistry, the embroidery, and handmade magnificence that goes into every dress.

Eliphas Levi

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...

Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.

Lord Chesterfield

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

Johann G. Seume

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Jeremy Collier

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.