Astley Gilbert Quotes

#1. with her, almost as though she were an equal. But he was

June Hall McCash

#2. Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path ... Male strength
the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

Emma Thompson

#3. Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Thomas Sowell

#4. The Indian must not lose pride in what he does, in his handicraft, for if he loses pride he will no longer build, his art will fail him, and he will completely be dependent upon others.

Louis L'Amour

#5. I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

Lance Armstrong

#6. I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Miriam Toews

#7. The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Paul Auster

#8. My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

Sue Grafton

#9. Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life.

Ross Macdonald

#10. The point of life is not to get anywhere - it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create - who and what you are, and then to experience that.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

Lauren Mayberry

#12. This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.

Toni Morrison

#13. My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

D.H. Lawrence