Dorothy Parker Quotes

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

The ones doing that, counting me out, are going to look silly.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

Temerity is not always successful.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

To be candid, I think, in retrospect, it was a mistake to work at AOL when I did. I think I had rose-colored glasses about the opportunity to reinvent AOL.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

I was stained by failure.

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong.

You either decide to take the easy way out, which means you're only going to disappoint yourself and everybody else, or you take the risk right now of being a fool, which is the only way you'll end up being exhilarated later on when you actually watch the movie.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.