There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. . . Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.