De Laceys Quotes & Sayings

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O! — William Shakespeare

Too late she saw: what she'd favored him with in jest he had received with adoration. — John Barth

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?" I say.
"I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror," he says.
"You should wake me," I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.
"It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you," he says. "I'm okay once I realize you're here. — Suzanne Collins

On average, it takes as much as $100 million in paid media for a brand to be a household name in America. Marketing partnerships are the best form of off-balance sheet financing one can ever find. Smart startups use this technique to scale their companies and build their brand equity. — Jay Samit

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart. — Michael Jackson

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform. — Corey Smith

Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips. — Joan Rivers

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger
not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out. — James Randi

We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map. — Howard Schultz

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news. — John Hawkes

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When — Elizabeth Berg

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness. — Mary Shelley

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges. — Jeff Raikes

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me. — Scott Pelley