Mike Dellosso Quotes

Leave it all on the track. Live with no regrets. Spend less time looking in life's rearview mirror and more time looking ahead at the road stretched before us and the opportunities that await. Why not, indeed? ~ Mike Dellosso

I guess that's what a regret is. A poor decision you made that you now wish like crazy you could go back and change because you know if you'd chosen another path, your life would be different. Better. ~ Mike Dellosso

Science can't prove faith. The two operate in entirely different realms. Natural and spiritual. ~ Mike Dellosso Frantic

Dellosso's cleverly plotted second Jed Patrick novel (after 2015's Centralia) finds the Afghan war vet hiding with his wife, Karen, and their eight-year-old daughter, Lilly, in a cabin in the Idaho wilderness. Two months earlier, two CIA agents gave him a thumb drive containing "every damaging piece of information about the Centralia Project," the exposure of which threatens to cause a "scandal that would be talked and read about for decades to come." Then one day Jed returns to the cabin to find Karen in tears. She tells him that three armed men burst into the cabin asking for the thumb drive, but she didn't know where it was. The men took Lilly, and vowed they would return for Karen. More shocks follow. Meanwhile, CIA technician Tiffany Stockton discovers a plot to control Jed's mind in a sophisticated update of The Manchurian Candidate. Can she stop him from becomes an unwilling assassin? Dellosso expertly misdirects readers, but they should be prepared for only serviceable prose. ~ Publishers Weekly

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken. ~ Mike Stackpole

All I'm armed with is research. ~ Mike Wallace

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field ~ Mike Krzyzewski

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject. ~ Mike Nichols

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind. ~ Mike Todd

Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy. ~ Mike Birbiglia

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. ~ Mike Judge

I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates. ~ Mike Vallely

This is my situation. I'm the kind of person who, for fun, writes articles called 'Aviation Club Soars into Orbit!' and an unhappy bully I've never heard of is sending out envoys. ~ Mike Birbiglia

Any good movie is filled with secrets. ~ Mike Nichols

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that. ~ Mike Bouchard

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right. ~ Mike Singletary

For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself. ~ Mike White

Darla had been doing something by the fire. Now she returned and began stripping the blanket off me. I grabbed it before she could pull it away from my groin, to preserve my modesty.
Let go. There's nothing there I haven't seen. Who do you think undressed you, anyway? And honestly, I've seen better equipment on goats. ~ Mike Mullin

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't. ~ Mike Leigh

I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me ... My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly ... Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything. ~ Mike Tyson

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make. ~ Patrick Marber

I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump. ~ Mike Pence

The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron Hans Neizant B ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K oln in 1653. ~ Mike Harding

Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws ... It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem. ~ Mike Royko

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking. ~ Mike Nichols

I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that's where a relationship is developed. I don't make a player, and a player doesn't make me a coach. We make each other. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

There is a classic moment in 'The Sun Also Rises' when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, "Gradually and then suddenly." When someone asks how I lost my mind, that's all I can say too. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles. ~ Mike Huckabee

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem. ~ Mike Royko

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies. ~ Mike Judge

On the seemingly one-sided relationship between Michael Jordan and his shoe sponsors Nike- The company should change its name to Mike. ~ Alvin Robertson

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy. ~ Mike DeWine

For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest of the world, which means the church should be more like a zoo than a tomb of identical mummies. ~ Mike Yaconelli

The awkward thing is the people in the room besides us. It's not us. It's just the 20 or 30 people that are around on set, who normally wouldn't be on set. That's always interesting. ~ Mike Colter

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that. ~ Mike McCue