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Stephen Leacock Quotes

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Stephen Leacock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944

Topics

Work Day Creative Never Years Fifty

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.

Robert Glasper

Age Responsibility People Me Feel

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

Jeff Buckley

Myself Human Everything Human Being

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

Steve Ballmer

Intellectual Everything Property

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Tony Kushner

Research You Go Movies Historical

My movies don't make any money, and they don't really light the world on fire. But I'm really lucky because I've gotten them made.

Mike Binder

Light Money Fire World Movies Lucky

We need a military strategy to defeat terrorists on the ground.

Michael McCaul

Strategy Defeat Military Need Ground

We realized quickly that wages are only one part of it, that what also matters are the schedules we give people, the hours that they work, the training we give them, the opportunities you provide them. What you've got to do is not just fix one part, but get all of these things moving together.

Judith McKenna

Work Together Training People Moving

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

Joshua Ferris

Writing Start Think Someone Bad

I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.

Bob McDonnell

Business People Think Talking Down

Money talks; there's no question about it.

Ara Parseghian

Money Question About Talks

I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!

Phil Lynott

Guitar Easy You Look Know Boy

I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I'm trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.

SZA

God Help Others People Deep Help