'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.
I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.