Delamotte Blanc Quotes & Sayings

My life was such a careful balance, a fragile nexus of work and attention and preparation and planning, like the old vaudeville trick of spinning plates on poles all over a stage, running from one to another to another, not letting any of them fall. I'd been so good at it, the running and the spinning. I'd been getting up before dawn and staying late after school and running and spinning the plates for as long as I could remember. I was getting so tired. I didn't want to run and spin anymore. But I didn't know what would happen, I didn't know who I would be, if one of the plates broke. — Katherine Howe

Deadlines? Surely you know someone who is late all the time. Someone who can't deliver anything of value unless they've stalled so much they've created an urgency, an emergency that requires mind-blowing effort and adrenaline to deliver. This is not efficient or reliable behavior, and yet they persist. The reason is simple: they can't push through the common fear of completion unless they can create a greater fear of total failure. — Seth Godin

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence. — Joao Magueijo

I never closed my eyes and neither did he as I kissed him. His lips parted, his tongue threaded with mine and we agreed he would fight for me.He would chase me.And who knew,he would save me one last time. — Pepper Winters

Horror was written all over his face as he began to understand that that child of his wasn't stupid, or immune to what he had done in the past. It had greatly affected her. — Diyar Harraz

May the peace of God disturb you always. — Anthony De Mello

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. — John Jay Chapman