Camilla Gibb Quotes

#1. Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

Camilla Gibb

#3. Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.

Camilla Gibb

#4. One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Bill Keller

#5. We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#6. The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

Camilla Gibb

#7. Hear the verbal protestations of all men: Nothing so certain as their religious tenets. Examine their lives: You will scarcely think that they repose the smallest confidence in them.

David Hume

#8. How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

Camilla Gibb

#9. I can't do nuttin' for you man

Go lean on shells answer man
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
You jumped out of the jelly into a jam

Flava Flav

#10. I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur'an, something troubled in me became still.

Camilla Gibb

#11. Well, I thought that I should let this young man here know that I was a Seal. I know how to go into places and get out unnoticed. I know how to kill someone before they even know I'm there. And I know how to -

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#12. He wrote the future onto my face with his lips.

Camilla Gibb

#13. If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

Camilla Gibb

#14. Any fool with ambition and heartlessness can be a ruler.

Tomichan Matheikal

#15. It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

Camilla Gibb

#16. Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant - better left unstirred.

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson