"I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society -- from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain."

-- Margaret Thatcher

#Self Quotes #Giving Quotes #Office Quotes

“A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Shane lookedâ€¦pale. Pale and shaken andâ€”how predictable was this?â€”pissed.”
“A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”
“I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value...”

Source : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, p. 60, 2006.
“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!”
“My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.”
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com
“There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.”

Source : O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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