Luci From Disenchantment Quotes

#1. We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Jean Rostand

#2. Never confuse looking your best with doing your best.

Mardy Grothe

#3. I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

Paulo Coelho

#4. The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle - a stereotype - to guide their buying: expensive = good.

Robert B. Cialdini

#5. Teddy tried, in the manner of a simple layman, to keep up with theoretical physics, via articles in the Telegraph and an heroic struggle with Stephen Hawking in 1996, but admitted defeat when he came across string theory. From then on he took every day as it came, hour by hour.

Kate Atkinson

#6. There was no circumcision. Lee said circumcision was dreamed up by moralists and lotion salesmen to make hand jobs chafe, and Peggy deferred to his better judgement.

Nell Zink

#7. I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

James Russell Lowell

#8. People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

LeAnn Rimes

#9. In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

Palmer Luckey

#10. All great work - artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual - is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.

Walpola Rahula

#11. Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Frank Abagnale

#12. Doesn't anyone ever call you that, among all your many nicknames?' she wondered as they walked back through to the hall. 'Call me what?' '"Lightning" Strike?

Robert Galbraith