Staff Quotes - Page 10

• A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.

  Anna Godbersen

  Order, Peers, Dry

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• I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

  Kellan Lutz

  Hands, Knives, Training

  "Kellan Lutz As Hercules: ‘Twilight’ Actor To Portray Greek Hero In New 3-D Adaptation". British GQ Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 05, 2013.

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• I like that stick of yours," he said. "It's a staff." Jem swung out to knock another automaton sideways. "Made by the Iron Sisters, only for Silent Brothers." [...] "Anyone can sharpen a stick." "It's a staff," Jem repeated, and saw Will's quicksilver smile out of the corner of his eye.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Eye, Iron

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• Vlad hated doing the paperwork as much as he did when a human employee quit, which was why they'd both made a promise not to eat quitters just to avoid the paperwork. As Tess had pointed out, eating the staff was bad for marale and made it so much harder to find new employees.

  Anne Bishop

  Promise, Quitting, Eating

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• In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED.

  Douglas Adams

  Morning, Editors, Office

  Douglas Adams (2002). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, Ballantine Books

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• Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

  Dan Brown

  Heaven, Wish, Chef

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

  Margaret Benson

  Dog, Cat, Owners

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• Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

  Chris Brasher

  School, Office, Shapes

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• The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

  Stevie Smith

  Running, Hands, Long

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.56, New Directions Publishing

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• I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.

  Seiji Maehara

  Sorry, People, Leader

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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Color, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Color, Broken, Add

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Magic, Sound

  1611 Prospero.The Tempest, act 5, sc.1, l.54-7.

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• I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Air, Oxygen, Breathing

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• His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Ocean, Eye

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• What are you? (Nick) Completely perplexed. You remember everything that happened. (Acheron) Yeah. Duh. Not like you’re going to forget the killer zombie stalkers and psyched-out kitchen staff. What kind of freak show is this? (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Remembers Everything, Kitchen, Zombie

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• Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?" Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. "I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Flames, House

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.

  Francis Spufford

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.

  Mira Grant

  Shoes, Clothes, Naked

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf

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• If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Decision, Tests, Guidance

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

  Lauren Beukes

  Twelve, Cracks, Ems

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.149, Jacana Media

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• Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and breaks his staff - his author retires to Stratford. At the very end, Mann did something similar. Interestingly, in both instances, death came quite quickly after that.

  Philip Kitcher

  Giving Up, Artist, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

  Azim Premji

  Learning, Way, Excellent

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