David Gessner Quotes

#1. Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

Patrick Symmes

#2. It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

Bernie Ecclestone

#3. I do what I want, when I feel like it ; now I'm not the same ...

Avril Lavigne

#4. That's what's inspiring to me-finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

M.I.A.

#5. Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Beyonce Knowles

#6. Of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul.'" "Jonathan ... " His name was a prayer.

C.D. Reiss

#7. And, at night, in a narrow bed in her old room, Mary Morevna would hold Ivan tight inside of her, demanding his obedience to her, demanding that his soul be ripped out and emptied into her.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation;

Jonathan Edwards

#9. I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good.

Tom Cole

#10. What mark will I leave behind? How will anyone know I have been here? What sign will tell the future traveler I existed? 'I am here! Today ... I exist'. I believe the deepest impression is made in those moments when I can say 'I care, I love'.

Leonard Nimoy

#11. It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)

David Gessner

#12. You are the spark that sets others on fire when you initiate.

Mark Sanborn

#13. No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

Henry V. O'Neil

#14. The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

Judith Martin