Gaffer Quotes

#1. Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.

Tom Stoppard

#2. But then his lips quirked up,and amusement flickered in his eyes.Something else,too - something that made my heart beat faster.

Lauren Myracle

#3. When my friend told her drug dealer that she was transgender, he immediately started using the correct pronouns for her and her parents don't so there's an issue there.

Unknown

#4. You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

Robyn Schneider

#5. I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

T. J. Miller

#6. How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Nancy E. Turner

#7. Gaffer Swanthold speaks truth when he saith, 'Better a crust with content than honey with a sour heart.

Howard Pyle

#8. Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

Sarah Polley

#9. I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

Vashti Bunyan

#10. To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with no teeth, it's easy to say: 'Damn it, boys, you mustn't bite!' But, when you've got all thirty-two teeth ...

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with are very important.

Clint Eastwood

#12. So instead of a bra, what do you think I wore for support, intergalactically? Gaffer's tape.

Carrie Fisher

#13. My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#14. I wish you'd take his Ring. You'd put things to rights. You'd stop them digging up the Gaffer and turning him adrift. You'd make some folk pay for their dirty work.' 'I would,' she said. 'That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Amy Tan

#16. It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.

Colin Firth

#17. He didn't save women. He damned them.

Madeline Martin

#18. Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)

J.R.R. Tolkien