Dagelet Island Quotes & Sayings

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished. — Kurt Braunohler

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door. — Tom Felton

Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock. — Alan Lightman

Not that she'd have a choice in the matter, but it made her feel a little better to pretend she would. To pretend she'd tell him to fuck off instead of agreeing to almost anything he wanted because she needed her drugs. And fuck, she didn't just need those now. She needed protection. Needed this sleazy drug-dealing pimp with his pornographic decor and his appalling pajamas. — Stacia Kane

Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter," she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O'Hara, River of Dreams — Sharon K. Garner

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life. — Ernest Dimnet

Religion leaves no room for human complexity. — Daniel Radcliffe

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick. — Jimmy Webb

no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared. — Genevieve Cogman

First, when a strategic inflection point sweeps through the industry, the more successful a participant was in the old industry structure, the more threatened it is by change and the more reluctant it is to adapt to it. Second, whereas the cost to enter a given industry in the face of well-entrenched participants can be very high, when the structure breaks, the cost to enter may become trivially small, giving rise to Compaqs, Dells and Novells, each of which emerged from practically nothing to become major corporations. What's common among these companies is that they all instinctively followed the rules for success in a horizontal industry. — Andrew S. Grove

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble. — Larry Brilliant

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. — Jaron Lanier

I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission. — Kim Kardashian

It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church's part to the attacks of heresy. — Ronald Knox

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost. — Claire North