Derobertis Lab Quotes & Sayings

It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike. — Robert Mankoff

How?" I demanded. "How could you have screwed this one up?"
"When I got in, they said the manager was on the phone and would be a few minutes. So, I sat down and ordered a drink."
This time, I did lean my forehead against the steering wheel. "What did you order?"
"A martini."
"A martini." I lifted my head. "You ordered a martini before a job interview."
"It's a bar, Sage. I figured they'd be cool with it. — Richelle Mead

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure. — Marion Jones

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself. — Brian Molko

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left. — Gilles Deleuze

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded. — Lakhdar Brahimi

I still didn't believe him. And for the moment, I didn't much care one way or the other. My whole mind had swung back to Simon. — Dodie Smith

Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together. [p. 23] — Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Just this minute, I'll settle for an apology, she decided. And I wont' board the boat without one. Even if Kaz isn't sorry, he can pretend. He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being. — Leigh Bardugo

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. — Ely Culbertson

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date. — Wayne Rogers

It's funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it. — Kami Garcia

If you have a Disability, don't let people
Dis your Ability. — Jeff

Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.

--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings