Quotes of: Marriage-work Keyword

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel com...

John Adams

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards...

Janet Frame: An Autobiography

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

The Jane Austen Book Club

Space is infinite. To the mind that means freedom, liberation.' So wrote Arisko, our greatest turkle philosopher, in his most famous work, 'Thoughts In A Bathtub'," said Dottia, dreamily, in an inspired state.

Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle

Happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, love... All these things work the same way. The more you search for them, the less likely you are to find them.

Keeping It Straight: You, Me & Everything Else

IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

Even when you can't see, God is working it out. You should not be discouraged or give up hope. Keep the Faith! Your situation is not your destination. God will do what he promised, you just be ready

Release The Ink

I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was So badly acted and directed. But people like that.

Robert Altman: Interviews

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

Rooftop Soliloquy

Get your associates as fast as you can and then get a bachelors." "I don't want that. I want to work in TV." "Trust me, Laura. You'd be happier if you were an accountant.

Realities: a Collection of Short Stories

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

The Return of the Twelves

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. [Songs of Longing]

Rainer Maria Rilke - Sämtliche Werke (Complete Works)

Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales,” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.

The Replacement Wife

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

South of Broad

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

The Soulphisticated Lady's Guide to Being a Boss

But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator’s report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.

Snow Crash

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

The Salinger Contract

We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. "Little thing called character," I say, thinking,

Split: A Memoir of Divorce