There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. - William S Burroughs It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day. - Bryce Courtenay Why don't you mind your own fucking business?" I snapped. "If I want to take my sister to my place of business, that's my own damned business and not any of your business." Was I overusing the word business? Fuck it. "So mind your own business. - Maryjanice Davidson But Tom," said the moon, "the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone's a pendulum swinging, to and fro, and always you're getting hit by someone else's swinging pendulum. You're minding your own business, but someone else'e pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get...

I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? - Elizabeth Gilbert Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. - Anita Brookner Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now. - Suzanne Collins What is your problem?" I asked, scooping the freezing mess out of my cleavage. "We got unfinished business," he reminded me. "My name's not Bi...

Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. - J R R Tolkien Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered. - J R R Tolkien There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound. - Douglas Adams One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, m...

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense. - Maria Bartiromo No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. - Samuel Beckett it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. - William Shakespeare Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thinga warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. - George Bernard Shaw The Dresden atrocit...

I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. - Muhammad Yunus What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. - Muhammad Yunus

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. - Ronald Reagan In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. - John Aniston You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen. - William Shatner The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch. - Tom Arnold I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year. - Roy Ayers I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act. - Kenny Baker On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. - Scott Bakula I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop ...

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business. - Cate Blanchett Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. - Bill Cosby Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business. - J K Rowling To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. - Marsha Sinetar I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. - David Walliams

According to Babette, 98.3 percent of lawyers end up in Hell. That's in contrast to the 23 percent of farmers who are eternally damned. Some 45 percent of retail business owners are Hellbound, and 85 percent of computer software writers. Perhaps a trace number of politicians ascend to Heaven, but statistically speaking, 100 percent of them are cast into the fiery pit. As are essentially 100 percent of journalists and redheads. - Chuck Palahniuk The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. - William James I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. - Philip Green A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. - Lee Iacocca For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel i...

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy. - Anne Burrell It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out. - Rocco Dispirito As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. - Rocco Dispirito In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take. - John Hickenlooper My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry...

With wedding photography, I'd want repeat business. So hooray for divorce! - Jarod Kintz Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business. - Prince

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. - Paul Valery Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. - Plato My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. - Lewis Carroll I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure. - L Frank Baum The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are ...

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business.They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies. - John Steinbeck It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. - Martha Graham It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god. - C S Lewis It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. - Gertrude Stein

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business. - Lemony Snicket What's your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean's brotherhe hadn't been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn't,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short? - Rachel Caine None of your business. Go get me a beer. - Olivia Cunning So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true! - Calista Flockhart What ...

Instead of ignoring me, Frankie was suddenly noticing every little thing I did, wondering why I did it. Christina started asking me questions about things, like I was the smarter brother. Dad was now confiding in me about things that were really none of my business, and Mom started treating me like I was actually a responsible human being. It was all very disturbing. - Neal Shusterman What's up with you and that new guy anyway?" Simon watched David leaving the room with contempt on his face. "Nothing." "Nothing or none of my business?" "Both." I placed my hand on my chin over the table and pretended he wasn't talking to me. - Nely Cab I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me. - Jim Caviezel The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "b...