Darcy Lapier Quotes & Sayings

Once you start something, finish it. Never give up... — Kenny Wayne Fields

I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense. — Warren Buffett

The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries. — Charles Babbage

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it. — John Updike

Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"
Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?"
Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate. — Brian Jacques

Slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need to be said?" "Does this need to be said by me?" "Does this need to be said by me now?" — Craig Ferguson

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. — Steven Magee

A sign of this is what happens (10) in our actions, for we delight in contemplating the most accurately made images of the very things that are painful for us to see, such as the forms of the most contemptible insects and of dead bodies. — Aristotle.

In comic books, people with gifts became superheroes; in real life they became outcasts. — Eoin Colfer

I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer. — Mark Ronson

Was suddenly aware, almost in a panic - a joyful panic - of the wealth of possibility out in the world, and also within myself. — Claire Messud

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. — Carlos Fuentes