Gabbo Quotes

#1. What is there in the world NOT to love? Other than enemies, drugs, diseases, traffic, morning alarms, people snoring, dishes, folding fitted sheet, YouTube ads, group texts you don't want to be a part of, taxes, unknown callers ...

Me

#2. Jealousy is not the remedy.
It is the illness.

Gabbo De La Parra

#3. From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That's appalling.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#4. The only way to become immune to bullshit is to stop believing in it.

Gabbo De La Parra

#5. I can handle Evil, but I cannot handle Anticipation.

Gabbo De La Parra

#6. Costco is a passion. Costco is like a massage.

Kris Jenner

#7. Never trust a man who cannot laugh at himself.

Gabbo De La Parra

#8. You can't always win. But you should keep trying.

Gabbo De La Parra

#9. Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

Colin Powell

#10. He'll is just one apostrophe away from Hell. Keep that in mind.

Gabbo De La Parra

#11. As a writer, I am not opposed to killing off villains. That's not the kind of later biting in the ass I prefer for my protagonist.

Gabbo De La Parra

#12. Faith is in your Heart; Religion is in your Head.

Gabbo De La Parra

#13. People only need the right amount of bullshit for things to start exploding. Sad, but it's human nature.

Gabbo De La Parra

#14. Clockwork Vendetta is not steampunk; it is steamfun. I can't take myself so seriously as to write something truly punk in the true sense of the word.

Gabbo De La Parra

#15. Don't ask for something you're not willing to give.

Gabbo De La Parra

#16. There is a species for every predator...

Gabbo De La Parra

#17. She wondered what a girl had to do to get her soul condemned.

Anna Durand

#18. And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.

Thomas Mann

#19. Life gets in the way of Creativity, but it's up to us not to let it interfere more than necessary.

Gabbo De La Parra

#20. I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments.

Fran Krause

#21. No one can outrun their heart.

Gabbo De La Parra

#22. Hatred and Blessing cannot coexist in the same heart.

Gabbo De La Parra

#23. A true hunter always has trophies (even if they are secret).

Gabbo De La Parra

#24. Because being with you is like being too close to the sun. It's overwhelming and I'm scared I'm going to get burned.

Ivory Quinn

#25. If someone tells you a secret that doesn't belong to them, be sure that secret has been shared more than once.

Gabbo De La Parra

#26. You can please yourself without pleasuring yourself, but you cannot pleasure yourself without pleasing yourself.

Gabbo De La Parra

#27. If we are to become friends I must laugh the way I really do, LOL is not my thing.

Gabbo De La Parra

#28. Erotic and Romantic end with the same letters. That's what I call a Happy Ending.

Gabbo De La Parra

#29. If you can't be pretty, at least be nice.

Gabbo De La Parra

#30. Religion is for the intimacy of your heart, not for your tongue and hands to hurt others.

Gabbo De La Parra

#31. Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Jane Austen

#32. Cojones: it's a thing you either have or don't.

Gabbo De La Parra