"That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence."

-- Shirley Hazzard

#Loyalty Quotes #People Quotes #Matter Quotes

“No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.”

Source : Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books
“And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.”
“I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.”
“A poem doesnâ€™t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.”
“Our character is our will; for what we will we are.”

Source : Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press “Sermons”, Aeterna Press
“Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.”
“As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.”
“I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.”

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