Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Aristotle

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Kathleen Norris

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Oscar Niemeyer

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

Mahatma Gandhi

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

William Feather

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

B. B. King

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

Torry Castalleno

We really only started to play at lunch time.

Amanda Waldenmaier

I have lunch with him pretty much every day. There are not many people that wanted it as bad.

Kyle Goodrich

He comes to practice with a big old lunch pail and sweats on.

Alan Guth

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Guth

The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science -- everything can be created from nothing...it is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Alan Greenspan

The free lunch has still to be invented.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.

Zoe Kazan

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

Brunello Cucinelli

I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

Natalie Massenet

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

Bill Vaughan

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

Paula Creamer

There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.

Marcus Samuelsson

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

Ellen Gillespie

I think maybe people are skiing and going out to dinner and not shopping.

Kurt Busch

I'm still the down-to-earth guy who'd rather go have dinner with my grandma and her meatloaf than go out and do things with some friends.

John Fielder

We had dinner last week, and we talked about a new girlfriend, his new job and how he liked the people at work.