Barry Gifford Quotes

#1. I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

James Ellroy

#2. The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.

Barry Gifford

#3. Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Ethel Waters

#4. The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.

Barry Gifford

#5. This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.

Barry Gifford

#6. But while it was their opportunities that made these men fortunate, it was their own merit that enabled them to recognize these opportunities and turn them to account, to the glory and prosperity of their country.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. We fool ourselves

into thinking

we're strong

then complain

the rest of our lives

crippled by

the consequences.

Barry Gifford

#8. The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.

Herbert Marcuse

#9. I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.

John Kiriakou

#10. My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

Nadya Suleman

#11. To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.

Frank Delaney

#12. I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.

Charles Dickens

#13. My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.

Chris Pronger

#14. Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies.

Barry Gifford