Latest Quotes

“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better…”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Some people say, ‘Never let them see you cry.’ I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents.Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget you birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if…”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.”

— Mark Twain, Mark Twain Quotes

“Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Saying ‘yes’ doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying ‘please’ doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission.”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.”

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

“The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women weren’t even talking to me - not because I’d offended them, I hadn’t, I’d been angelic at that bus stop, except for the eavesdropping. Rail replacement buses take an e…”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

“Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”

— Epicurus, The Art of Happiness (Penguin Classics)

“I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.”

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

— John Lubbock, The Use of Life. [1894]