Lapsley Singer Quotes & Sayings

He had been walking for a long time, ever since dark in fact, and dark falls soon in December.
("The Old House In Vauxhall Walk") — Charlotte Riddell

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation. — Jay Samit

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out. — Jim Crace

Weirdly - but as Danny and Amos had suspected - the further the winning number was from the number on a person's lottery ticket, the less regret they felt. "In defiance of logic, there is a definite sense that one comes closer to winning the lottery when one's ticket number is similar to the number that won," Danny wrote in a memo to Amos, summarizing their data. In another memo, he added that "the general point is that the same state of affairs (objectively) can be experienced with very different degrees of misery," depending on how easy it is to imagine that things might have turned out differently.

Regret was sufficiently imaginable that people conjured it out of situations they had no control over. But it was of course at its most potent when people might have done something to avoid it. What people regretted, and the intensity with which they regretted it, was not obvious. — Michael Lewis

The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes. — Dana Gould

It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories. — Auliq Ice

I hate meeting new people even new clients who intend to give me money. I try to be pleasant but I'm not very good at it. The best I can usually pull off is 'professional if somewhat chilly.' It's not ideal no. But it beats 'awkward and bitchy. — Cherie Priest

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. — John Chamberlain

Hobey-Ho, let's go. — D.J. MacHale