Le Tour Dargent Quotes & Sayings

Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience. — Miyuki Miyabe

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan. — Kevin Smith

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character. — John C. Reilly

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. — Etty Hillesum

What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and that is the child you once were, long before formal education ever got its claws into you - that impatient, all-demanding child who wants love and power and can't get enough of either and who goes on raging and weeping in your spirit till at last your eyes are closed and all the fools say, 'Doesn't he look peaceful?' It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old. — Robertson Davies

Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill. — Cyril Connolly

Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important. — Hal Duncan

Parents, you know, can be terrible. — Diana Vreeland

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together. — Colleen Hoover

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb. — Shirley Maclaine

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. — Elizabeth McGovern

The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer ... — Henry R. Towne

Well, you could always have him change your tire." He gestured to a large and scary-looking man who seemed to be watching us. This guy looked like Herman Munster in the flesh. — Penelope Ward

Guilt ferrets are bastards. — Kevin Hearne

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along. — Joseph McGinty Nichol