Foreman Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“If the foreman had no experience in bossing a mob, they had no experience in being one. Members of a community, not elements of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to…

— Joseph Heller

“the worst kind of boss—someone who had no idea what he was doing, and was therefore all the more determined to throw his weight…

— Blake Pierce

“That McCarthy, he thought, is a damn good shop foreman. He has the knack of needling a man, getting him to put out his…

— Philip K. Dick

“One day, I think, we'll invent the most impressive broom an interrogating mind might ever attest to seeing. Enormous, this thing would be, and…

— Kirk Marshall

“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”

— Charles Dickens

“It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“my great weakness: if a task was even mildly challenging, any sense of injustice drained away and I simply worked quietly until I was…

— Robin Sloan

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way,…

— John Steinbeck

“In the end, it takes phenomenal neatness of housekeeping to put it through the heads of men that they are swine.”

— Eudora Welty

“Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his…

— Ken Follett