#hum

I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin -different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business. ↗

— Bernard Stonehouse

#business

Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#belief #business #catering #food #humor

I understand small business growth. I was one. ↗

— George W. Bush

#business

What goes in your butthole is your business, all we care about is making sure Chipotle is what comes out of it." - Rodrigo Chipotle ↗

— Kindle Alexander

#business

Dennis, please. I don't know what-" "Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes. ↗

— Simon Kernick

#business

Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?" "You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours. ↗

— Karen Witemeyer

#gruffness #humour #business

There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage or saint, Nor sparing wit nor learning. Now, if you'd know the reasons why, The best of reasons I'll supply: 'Tis bread to the poor vermin. ↗

— J. Doraston

#business

The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#humor #change

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#human-nature #life

The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#humour #sherlock-holmes-watson #business