Lobcocks Quotes & Sayings

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important. — Vinod Khosla

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love. — Rajneesh

I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is ... part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures. — Marc Guggenheim

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old. — Seth Rogen

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind. — Henry David Thoreau

Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.
I was drunk, cried Suttree. — Cormac McCarthy

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily. — Frank Laubach

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. — Bill Gates

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate. — Lucy Hawking

I love you like a man insane. — Amanda Bouchet

He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant.
"Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"
The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it. — Rick Riordan

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction. — Ayelet Waldman