Gabrielle Roy Quotes

#1. Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Gabrielle Roy

#2. Oh, bless your heart," she says, which in southern is akin to 'you poor, stupid thing.

Eve Jagger

#3. The greater part performed achieves the less.

John Dryden

#4. The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

Gabrielle Roy

#5. Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

Gabrielle Roy

#6. It's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

Gabrielle Roy

#7. Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog

Mark Rubinstein

#8. If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

Erik Erikson

#9. If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon

#10. The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

Gabrielle Roy

#11. Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

Gabrielle Roy

#12. My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Gabrielle Roy

#13. Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

Tadao Ando

#14. I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful ... With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.

Elon Musk

#15. I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

Gabrielle Roy

#16. With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

Will Rogers

#17. Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

Gabrielle Roy

#18. The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Gabrielle Roy

#19. I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

Tibor Fischer

#20. It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

Michael Shanks

#21. The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

Gabrielle Roy

#22. Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

Gabrielle Roy

#23. That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

Rajneesh

#24. I know people like to work for me, and quite a few have gotten rich working for me.

Red McCombs

#25. One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Gabrielle Roy

#26. Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Muriel Spark