Never Quotes
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Never explain, never complain.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
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A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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I never sing in the shower either.
