Depestre Quotes & Sayings

The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths. — Bianca Frazier

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.) — Burton G. Malkiel

Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I think I infected them with my pun virus. They grew to enjoy puns, think puns, just as much as me. The problem is people don't really like puns any more, so I worry I've rendered the poor fuckers virtually unemployable. — Frank Skinner

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things. — Janette Rallison

When he greeted them on Day 16, he said, "Thanks so much, such great food for us." This time he gave a false, fake laugh. Phony. I thought of my mother . Her disdain for phonies was even greater than her disdain for the lazy. — Shannon Kirk

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt. — Charles Kennedy

I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends. — Mary Shelley

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? — Donna Tartt

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop. — Robertson Davies