Quotes of: Busy Keyword

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

Dodsworth

No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Different Seasons

Don’t make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They’re very serious business.

A Date with a Werewolf

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.

The Emissary: A Novel

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.

Eric

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

Fifth Business

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.

Fifth Business

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Family Happiness

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

The Fault in Our Stars

Candace doesn't have to worry about me being busy in my world without you, because you are my world.

First Thing I See

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

Green Angel

When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.

God Hates Us All

I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.

Grandma's Matinee Bow

Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should. And just because you can't, doesn't mean that you shouldn't try.

Guerrilla Business

Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.

Good Harbor

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Girl, Interrupted

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Gangster

[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.

Bossypants

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

Beauty and Sadness

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.  

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test