Besnard Lakes Quotes & Sayings

3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion). — Lester Beall

We will not build our offensive game plan around our punter. We will not major in punting. — Rex Ryan

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French. — Fritz Sauckel

followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life. — James Altucher

I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you? — David Sedaris

I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow. — Joseph Epstein

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. — Bruno Walter

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know. — Susan Orlean

Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you. — Mike Bickle

Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I really wish I had, like, seven lives so I could go from being a hipster one day to a punk the next. But that's the great thing about fashion. In a way, it's like acting, because you can try on all these different roles. — Sophie Turner

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option. — Thomas A. Edison

What is the point of magic if we can't fix real problems? — Lev Grossman