Gabriel Gadfly Quotes

#1. I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Viggo Mortensen

#2. Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

Bill Maher

#3. The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Ben Okri

#4. You ask why I love you. For this: You are a minute of quiet in a loud shouting world.

Gabriel Gadfly

#5. The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

Mike Leigh

#6. I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

Jonathan Evison

#8. Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.

I open my mouth
and dust spills out
instead of feelings.

Dust, and the yellow
wings of moths,
and brittle paper,

scrawled over
with riddles that
lack solutions.

Gabriel Gadfly

#9. I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

Jeff Lemire

#10. There's something solid and constant about trees." I said quietly. "They may change through the seasons, but they're always there. They're dependable.

Julianne Donaldson

#11. And now here he was. With his love and his hope and, yes, his imperfections, that, in a few months if everything mirrored the events of my prior life, I'd soon trade in for the love and hope of another man who was equally imperfect though in far different ways.

Allison Winn Scotch

#12. I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

Peter Krause

#13. Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

Richard Stearns

#14. There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

Mohnish Pabrai

#15. It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer.

Theresa Sjoquist

#16. April light was unlike any other. It had a charming, optimistic unreliability like an overbid hand in poker. It gave a promise of spring that it wasn't sure it could keep.

Peter Hoeg