Dappered Classics Quotes & Sayings

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice. — Gillian Welch

Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. — Eugene Fama

Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace. — Natalia Marx

I think all women have some sort of beauty in them. — The Miz

We can all fall," said the abbot. "But perhaps not as hard and not as fast and not as far as someone who spends his life on the ascent. — Louise Penny

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food. — Homaro Cantu

There are no ordinary cats. — Colette

Because scientists are reasonable men, one or another argument will ultimately persuade many of them. But there is no single argument that can or should persuade them all. Rather than a single group conversion, what occurs is an increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances. — Thomas S. Kuhn

Every day is a new day and every sunrise brings hope to the hopeless". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it. — Joel Edgerton

When I first took this job at the factory it was not my intention to work there very long, for I once possessed higher hopes for my life, although the exact nature of these hopes remained rather vague in my youthful mind. While the work was not arduous, and my fellow workers congenial enough, I did not imagine myself standing forever at my designated assembly block, fitting together pieces of metal into other pieces of metal, with a few interruptions throughout that day for breaks that were supposed to refresh our minds from the tedium of our work or for meal breaks to allow us to nourish our bodies. Somehow it never occurred to me that the nearby town where I and the others at the factory lived, travelling to and from our jobs along the same fog-strewn road, held no higher opportunities for me or anyone else, which no doubt accounts for the vagueness, the wispy insubstantiality, of my youthful hopes. — Thomas Ligotti

I'm never going to retire. — Rene Auberjonois

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source. — Mark Knopfler