The Office Bosss Day Quotes

#1. Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)]

Helen Dunmore

#2. The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

T. S. Eliot

#3. In short, all good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

Jack Ma

#5. Anger tears me up inside ... My own ... or anyone else's.

Betty White

#6. A Florida planter defended his management practices by pointing to his slaves' "natural increase which in the last year has been over ten percent, in a gang of 120." A Georgia overseer informed his employer that with good management his plantation could produce much more cotton.

James Oakes

#7. Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

John Shaw Billings

#8. I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have a place here. And, at least, I deserve it, as much as anybody else, hopefully.

James McAvoy

#9. I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Edwyn Collins

#10. I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

Allison Tolman

#11. My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

Dalton McGuinty