Nearly every boss has said it. And just about every employee has heard it. Yet it’s one of the most meaningless lines ever spoken in the office: ‘My door is always open.’ – Jason Fried
When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, ‘Absolutely – this is a no-brainer.’ Let’s define the sound of the future. – Jochen Zeitz
I have already said and will continue to say that I won’t respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don’t do that kind of politics. – Jeremy Corbyn
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. – Jacqueline Novogratz
I was sent the script for ‘Silver Linings’ when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said ‘Oh, boy am I!’ – Jacki Weaver
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad. – John Lasseter
I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he’s changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don’t pay their fair share of taxes. – Jon Lovitz
Until Donald Trump got to where he was, they said you’ll never see a rich businessman who’s never been in politics be president. I clearly was wrong about that. – Jamie Dimon
What can’t be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. – Herta Muller
I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I’ve said to a lot of people over the years, ‘I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I’m not going.’ – John Madden
My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked ‘Jasper who?’ I just said ‘Carrott’ – but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word. – Jasper Carrott
In America, Miramax are using a ‘New York Times’ review that said ‘Trainspotting’ makes ‘Kids’ look like a 1960s episode of ‘Sesame Street.’ – Irvine Welsh
I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager. – Julia Roberts
If I’d had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, ‘You can either be a footballer or an actor,’ I’d have said: ‘Well, can’t I be a footballing actor?’ – Ian McShane
I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon. – Jane Goodall
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, ‘You might do this or that,’ or ‘Why don’t we see more of this.’ I merely took the book and published it. – James Salter
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. – Jeanette Winterson
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. – Jerome K. Jerome
It’s not new: In the ’70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on ‘All in the Family,’ but it was all in Carroll O’Connor’s performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed. – Jason Bateman
The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act. – Jack Bowman
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison
I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, ‘What actor wouldn’t want to play this role?’ – Jim Caviezel
The newspapers were saying, ‘You have AIDS.’ They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly. – Isabelle Adjani