the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.
...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.
But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
Candace doesn't have to worry about me being busy in my world without you, because you are my world.
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.
I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.
Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should. And just because you can't, doesn't mean that you shouldn't try.
Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
A hotel is more than bricks and blankets. A hotel is a welcoming atmosphere, and a place to engage in a business transaction with a prostitute.
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I have to say in the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and becoming a trusted advisor.
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at a...
In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
