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Don't want to slump over the oars.
It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
I came out with my five-piece group and opened at Billy Burke's Swing Oar. This was when Hollywood was really jumpin'. This was when Frankie Laine used to come in and ask if he could sing a number.
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.
