Rolodex Quotes

#1. What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who've lost an archery match with cupid?

Jenn Cooksey

#2. He calls you occasionally at the office to ask how you are. You doodle numbers and curlicues on the corners of Rolodex cards. Fiddle with your Phi Beta Kappa key. Stare out the window. You always, always, say: Fine.

Lorrie Moore

#3. Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.

John Sculley

#4. I was famously in love with a woman who had no time to spare, not even a breath, for she dwelled in a place beyond time or the reach of anyone's Rolodex, her every breath measured out of pressurized tanks.

Jonathan Lethem

#5. The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don't ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

Ryan Lilly

#6. I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn't as though I had a whole Rolodex full of friends. But no sense being sentimental about it. Sentiment is stupid.

Barry Eisler

#7. I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extensions, no matter how many secretaries, no matter how many names in the rolodex. It's all bullshit.

Irena Klepfisz

#8. Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.

Tom Peters

#9. Your "everybody" probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody - to which they refer as the "generalized other" - is usually a collection of about five or six people.

Margie Warrell

#10. VC firms are ... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

Bill Maris

#11. I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

Hugh Jackman

#12. His lips look like two worms fucking.

George R R Martin

#13. It is not money that is important, it is life that is important and precious.

Debasish Mridha

#14. and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.

Charles Dickens

#15. Secrets and Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul

Dan Harris

#16. Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

Max Tundra

#17. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Dee Dee Myers

#18. In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Juice Newton

#19. I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

Nelson Mandela

#20. Why do you think so many men are gay?" Green

A.E. Via

#21. As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

Al Yankovic

#22. If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Michael Mandelbaum

#23. Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton