"If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night."

-- Cyrus Chestnut

#Jobs Quotes #Home Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I'm very good at being out of work.”

Source : "'If I wasn't in Lewis, I wouldn't watch it': TV detective Kevin Whately admits he has no idea why show is so popular" by Sue Crawford, www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.
“Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.”
“John Wooden would say never mistake activity for achievement. Sometimes we think we're really doing well on a given day. But 'What did you accomplish?' is the question that we should really be asking not 'What did we do?'”
“My whole life, I've been telling jokes.”
“If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.”
“I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.”
“If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.”
“Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.”

Source : Melanie Rawn (2005). “The Star Scroll”, p.315, Penguin

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