Underling Quotes

#1. If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

Horace

#2. When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

Jack McDevitt

#3. I'm a terrific boss, and I'll brutally sabotage the career of any underling who says different.

John Scalzi

#4. What a shame that the current owner of the Vaults, a former underling of Rourke Farran and a dealer of flesh and opiates, had accidentally run into her knives. Repeatedly.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

Alan Bennett

#6. Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.

Molly Harper

#7. There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101).

Ayn Rand

#8. Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Vera Farmiga

#9. I need to work on everything.

Danny Bautista

#10. It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

Mamoru Hosoda

#11. I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries.

Michael Ondaatje

#13. They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Frank Zappa

#15. Passion is your positive attitude in a world of negativity.

Jeff Blackman

#16. Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

F.R. Leavis

#17. They say scars don't hurt, but that's a lie. I'm not sure what hurts worse - the ones you can see or the ones so far beneath that they'll never really heal.

Lily Paradis

#18. Every second I spend waiting,
Drags me closer to this grave.
I'm not alone.
No, I'm just on my own.

Tegan Quin

#19. This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p

Mary Roach

#20. Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Agatha Christie