getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like…

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

— William Wordsworth

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

— Adam Osborne

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

— Jack Herer

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

— Steve Miller

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

— Carole King

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live…

— Leo Tolstoy

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave…

— Mariella Frostrup

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate…

— Margaret Heffernan

I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its…

— William Shakespeare

In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem…

— Eric Drooker

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a…

— Laura Kightlinger

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure…

— Trent Reznor

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears…

— Rajneesh

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

— Annie Dillard