Nonworking Quotes

#1. The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout

#2. After all, you can't hang out at the park with your kid and shop for coordinating head scarves and flip-flops (or whatever else Bethany does to fill the endless expanse of nonworking days) without a college education.
Oh, that's right. You totally can.

Megan McCafferty

#3. If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Douglas Adams

#4. Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.

Meg Wolitzer

#5. A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Ned Vizzini

#6. I don't care HOW people read, I care IF they read

John Green

#7. The text of the Bible means what God inspired it to mean, not what it means to me.

Donald S. Whitney

#8. Lebanon does not have a powerful army.

Richard Engel

#9. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.

John Flavel

#10. Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

Evgeni Kostitsyn

#11. Dimitri Belikov: "Now get back to your room - if you can manage it without throwing yourself at someone else."
Rose Hathaway: "Is that your subtle way of calling me a slut?"
(Vampire Academy)

Richelle Mead

#12. When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.

Daniel Wu

#13. We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

Violette Leduc

#14. I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.

Jake Epstein

#15. Sing, Muse, of high, moulded ceilings and built-in bookcases chockablock with hardcovers!

Garth Risk Hallberg

#16. Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

#17. All of us are not born with equal opportunities. But over a period of time, regardless of our parentage, place of birth, prospects in our communities, or education, the day comes when we have to make the choice to let our past teach us - or beat us.

Zig Ziglar

#18. And this should not surprise us. The plunder of black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting to which, likely to the end of our days, we must invariably return.

Ta-Nehisi Coates