"I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties."

-- Kay Boyle

#Duty Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Performing Quotes

“Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.”
“Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.”
“Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.”
“I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.”
“And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.”
“Fashion has always been nourished by the past. At the end of the day, where the inspiration comes from doesn't matter. It's what you do with it. How you treat it, how you translate it into a contemporary wardrobe. You put it in a shaker.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.”
“As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane.”

Source : Joseph Finder (2006). “Paranoia and Company Man”, p.243, Macmillan

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