Lapsley Quotes

#1. Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.

William Golding

#2. Engineers are funny animals. If you tell an engineer about a problem, any problem, his first instinct is to measure it. Tell an engineer you don't love him anymore and he'll ask for a graph of your love over time so that he can understand exactly how big the problem is and when it started.

Phil Lapsley

#3. When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.

Azim Premji

#4. In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#5. We're wasting time here. I've got a sweet ass to paddle. Some legs to spread ...

Starla Kaye

#6. The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#7. People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

Clay Guida

#8. A perfect poem owes its perfection to sounding the voice of the heart and the melodies of the conscience, as well as its ability to reflect the considerations, beliefs, opinions, and horizons of thought of the poet, but not due to its formal or mental aspects.

M. Fethullah Gulen

#9. Maybe you didn't need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn't need to delve into some kind of life question you knew you'd lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do the job for you, if only you dared to dream.

L.L. Barkat

#10. The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

Mark Kurlansky

#11. Street music is always good even it is bad, because actually there is only one melody over there: The melody of life struggle of a poor man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. I believe fiction writers are the most honest of liars. They expose their innermost thoughts through deception.

Nicholas Adams