Derring Quotes

#1. My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

Fiona Apple

#2. Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

Nathan Myhrvold

#3. They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do.

Nancy Atherton

#4. I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe warmth of his Deeds, we tout him, shout him praises, deify him, and, in short, make of him what no mortal could ever be.

Oakley Hall

#6. Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

Michael Dirda

#7. The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.

Ray Stevenson

#8. From that day on he learned to accept the
dungeon he existed in, neither seeking to escape with sudden derring-do nor beating his pate
bloody on its walls.
And, thus resigned, he returned to work.

Richard Matheson

#9. Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Terry Pratchett

#10. People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Han Suyin

#11. It was bad enough that these creatures had children and art; that they might also have vision was too dangerous a thought to entertain.

Clive Barker

#12. You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?"
I didn't do anything"
Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot"
-Chloe & Derek-

Kelley Armstrong

#13. I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#14. When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Sammy Sosa

#15. Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

Steve Maraboli

#16. What happens when you're seduced by two strapping and gorgeous alpha males?

Scarlett Avery

#17. She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables.

Anthony Powell

#18. Everybody feels like a freak in some way at some time in their life. Or feels on the outside. And everybody is worthy of love.

Erin Davie

#19. Unpopular but right is what you're going for.

Sam Altman

#20. What's of more concern: If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able to just be.

Rachel Cohn

#21. People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.

Donna Barr

#22. A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

#23. This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

Sarah Dessen

#24. Love is in constant motion, it is the energy which was created when you were born and it will never be destroyed.

Santosh Kalwar