DUMB-BLONDES

'I'm not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde'.

Source: Dolly Parton.

IF YOU CAN IMAGINE IT

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”

Source: William Arthur Ward.

...PREPARED MIND

'Chance favours the prepared mind'.

Source: Marcus Penn (mercenary leader character in the film Under Seige 2)

ASSUMPTION IS...

'Assumption is the mother of all f**k ups'.

Source: Marcus Penn (mercenary leader character in the film Under Seige 2)

BRING ON DEATH EARLY - RETIRE

'Yeah, if you want to bring on death early, you should retire...Minute you stop having to do things, and thinking and working, the body takes a different direction. Especially those who have worked at high pressure for a long time'.

Source: Bernie Ecclestone. (F1 supremo)

ADVICE

Your word is your bond.
Don't write a check your butt can't cash.
Loose lips sink ships.
Don't measure your neighbour's honesty by your own.
Eyes trust themselves, ears trust others.
Idle hands make idle brains.

Source: Anon.

ARTIST - A LUCKY DOG

'The artist is a lucky dog...In any community of a thousand souls there will be 900 doing the work, 90 doing well, 9 doing good and one lucky dog painting or writing about the other 999'

Source: Tom Stoppard.

ART & SEEING THINGS

'No great artist can see things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be a great artist'.

Source: Oscar Wilde.

MORE INTERESTED IN THE CONCEPT

'I'm more interested in the concept. I often think that if Alexander Fleming came in with penicillin, he'd be grilled on three-year margins'.
'I work every day but I play tennis, I play with my kids, I read a book'.

Source: Richard Farleigh. C Dragons Den panellist (2006-07)

IF IT FEELS GOOD

If it feels good, hold onto it.

Source: Nokia ad (2008)

WHAT A THREAD WE'RE ALL HANGING BY

Do you realise what a thread we’re all hanging by?
Can you understand how meaningless everything is?
Everything!
I’m talking about our lives, the show, the whole world.
It’s meaningless!
No, I’m not dying NOW, but when I ran out of the hospital I was so thrilled cos they told me I was going to be all right and I was running down the street because I’m okay.
I stopped because is suddenly hit me…So, I’m not going to go today…I’m not gonna go tomorrow…but eventually I’m going to be in that position.
No I don’t [just] realise it now, I know it all the time but I’ve managed to put it in the back of my mind because it’s a very horrible thing to try to think about…
…Doesn’t that ruin everything for you? It just takes the pleasure out of everything. You’re gonna die. I’m gonna die. The audience is gonna die. The network is gonna die. The sponsor. Everything!

Source: Woody Allen. From the film Hannah and Her Sisters.

LUCK IS THE CROSSROADS

Luck is the crossroads where preparation and opportunity meet.

Source: Anon.