Quotes About Lacy

#1. The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.

Sarah Lacy

#2. Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

Allen Lacy

#3. For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here.

James S.A. Corey

#4. Wales smiled sadly. "Dig, dig, clear every little detail, that's a detective's life. A crime is like an iceberg, one-tenth showing and nine-tenths hidden.

Ed Lacy

#5. Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

Steve Martin

#6. When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

Steve Lacy

#7. What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.

Sarah Lacy

#8. For over 25 years, Lacy Clay has been a powerful voice for working families and a tireless advocate for the people of St. Louis. And throughout his long career in public service, I've considered Lacy a close personal friend.

Jay Nixon

#9. People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

Steve Lacy

#10. A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all, his very strong commitment & motivation to aim for high musical goals. Talent like his is rare.

Steve Lacy

#11. I always want to have San Francisco as my home and my base. I'm a business reporter - that's what I do and what I enjoy - and I don't know another place on the planet that would be as fascinating to cover.

Sarah Lacy

#12. I would say I'm a goof ball, but not a comedian.

Jake Lacy

#13. I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

Steve Lacy

#14. For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain.

Lacy Danes

#15. Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.

Allen Lacy

#16. I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

Steve Lacy

#17. If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

Steve Lacy

#18. Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Steve Lacy

#19. A lot of the books that have been written about Silicon Valley are really good. Michael Malone's books are incredible. I think his 'Infinite Loop' is the best book that's been written about Apple.

Sarah Lacy

#20. Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#21. On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements ...

Eddie Lacy

#22. I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#23. It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves.

Toni Morrison

#24. Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.

Sarah Lacy

#25. Here's the thing- I love you and I love her, but I swear to God I'll kick your ass if you hurt her.

Katie McGarry

#26. I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Steve Lacy

#27. Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

Steve Lacy

#28. If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

Sarah Lacy

#29. Sometimes you don't feel the hits from the game until you're at home on the couch.

Eddie Lacy

#30. We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

Allen Lacy

#31. You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

Steve Lacy

#32. As far as I can see, the biggest decision you've got to make is which color lacy panties to let him peel of of you.

Courtney Hunt

#33. Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as
important as what was right.

Jodi Picoult

#34. The lacy fight was a career defining fight.

Joe Calzaghe

#35. If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Steve Lacy

#36. Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Steve Lacy

#37. I expected it would be the same for me, and I wouldn't show up as a wolf in black tights and a lacy pair of underwear - as amusing as that would be. No way was I going to show them I was a nasty pasty color with freckles.

Kim Harrison

#38. It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#39. I don't care if Facebook's valuation goes to one gillion. It can go so high we have to make up numbers. It is still not a bubble because there is still not another Facebook in the pipeline.

Sarah Lacy

#40. It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature - like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines

Mary MacLane

#41. I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

Sarah Lacy

#42. When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be . . . not everything you wish they won't become.

Jodi Picoult

#43. The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?

Sarah Lacy

#44. When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

Allen Lacy

#45. As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else.

Sarah Lacy

#46. I usually wait until I get on the bus, when I'm done with media and I get to sit down and listen to my music and just read through everyone's messages.

Eddie Lacy

#47. When you have a bad game the social network isn't exactly your best friend. People tend to go after you a little bit, but I don't let it bother me.

Eddie Lacy

#48. Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

Michael Ignatieff

#49. I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Allen Lacy

#50. I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

Sarah Lacy

#51. Mrs. Conners I will take you last 'cause I know you like it kinky. You are into some rough stuff and that black lacy teddy really is set off by all those blue veins on your thighs.

Alex Morgan

#52. I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#53. I was down to my lacy black bra and matching, thankfully, modest boy shorts first.
Ashley was next. "Thank god I shaved yesterday!"
Sandra was stripped to her underwear soon after. "I didn't, but I need to. No one look at my downtown.

Penny Reid

#54. This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.

Sarah Lacy

#55. Lacy took the box she'd brought up from the basement and placed each item inside. Here was the
crime scene: look at what was left behind and try to re-create the boy.

Jodi Picoult

#56. The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Steve Lacy

#57. Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

Allen Lacy

#58. Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Steve Lacy

#59. When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Steve Lacy

#60. Palmer looked back to see de Lacy still rolling across the muddy road from his fall, the destrier spinning and snorting from its refusal. 'So you've got me, de Lacy?' He faced forward again with another kick for greater speed. And a low-hanging branch slammed him from the saddle.

E.M. Powell

#61. If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

Steve Lacy

#62. Being picked for the Pro Bowl is a feeling I can't describe. I never thought I'd be out here as a rookie, so it's great.

Eddie Lacy

#63. In a well-made garden every day is new.

Allen Lacy

#64. The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Steve Lacy

#65. One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

Sarah Lacy

#66. Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

Steve Lacy

#67. Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Steve Lacy

#68. Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

Allen Lacy

#69. The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

Steve Lacy

#70. Make the drummer sound good.

Steve Lacy

#71. Complaining is like sitting in a rocking chair. You can get lots of motion, but you ain't going anywhere," Lacy Dawn said.

Robert Eggleton

#72. The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

Sarah Lacy

#73. A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Steve Lacy

#74. What is the fabric of time like? Black silk? A smooth twill, a rough tweed? Or lacy and fragile like something Mrs. Baxter would knit?

Kate Atkinson

#75. As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

Jodi Picoult

#76. It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

Sarah Lacy

#77. Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.

Sarah Lacy

#78. The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Sarah Lacy

#79. It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their U.S. educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.

Sarah Lacy

#80. Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Steve Lacy

#81. There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

Jake Lacy

#82. There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Steve Lacy

#83. Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.

Sarah Lacy

#84. You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.

Sarah Lacy

#85. Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

Sarah Lacy

#86. We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

Steve Lacy

#87. Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

Allen Lacy

#88. It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#89. I poked him in the chest. 'First of all, yes, it was. Lacy cards and love tokens were widely exchanged even in Victorian times. By now, you should know better than to screw with me on historical trivia.

Molly Harper

#90. Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#91. Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

Allen Lacy

#92. You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

Steve Lacy

#93. Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.

Allen Lacy

#94. In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Steve Lacy

#95. I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

Sarah Lacy

#96. We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.

Allen Lacy

#97. What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

Steve Lacy

#98. In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

Allen Lacy

#99. Pink was for girls.
Girly girls who wore flavored lip gloss and read magazines and talked on the phone lying on their perfect, lacy bedspreads with their feet in the air. Girls who spent six months looking for the perfect dress to wear to the school formal.
Girls who liked boys.

Lili Wilkinson

#100. The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.

Sarah Lacy