My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

John Geddes

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Burt Reynolds

I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.

Virginia Woolf

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Gene Tierney

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

Alfred A. Montapert

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

William Osler

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Venus Williams

Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.

Stephen King

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

Bernard Berkowitz

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

Prince Philip Edinburgh