Quotes About Billable Hours

#1. Back then I used to say that I despised the new coinage "quality time," that it was yuppie parents' smiley-face equivalent to lawyers' "billable hours.

Kurt Andersen

#2. That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#3. The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

Sigmund Freud

#4. Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.

Markus Zusak

#6. General competence is on the fucking decline.

Bret Easton Ellis

#7. 'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Russell Means

#8. Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.

Richie Norton

#9. Faeries can be quite mean if they are provoked.

Elizabeth Rudnick

#10. It's like you dug a hole and threw me into it with you, and this is the only way I can get out of it!

Jason Myers

#11. This sad, extreme example is more common than you might think. I have known daughters who felt tremendous relief when their narcissistic mothers passed away. They feel delivered out from under a huge burden, but guilty about admitting it.

Karyl McBride

#12. They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

Terry Pratchett

#13. Well, you're grown-ups," she said, in a tone of voice that did its best to imply that they weren't, and that even if they were they shouldn't be.

Neil Gaiman

#14. We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too ... amazing records, amazing songs.

Mike Love

#15. If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

Henry Cuellar

#16. Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.

Anne Frank

#17. There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage.

Garth Greenwell