Top 100 Gaines Quotes
#1. He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.
George Herbert
#2. Marston liked to say that Wonder Woman was meant to be "psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world," but neither he nor Gaines seem to have given much thought to hiring a woman to draw her.
Jill Lepore
#3. There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Peter Berg
#4. I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do.
Romulus Linney
#6. I always said, "When things come against us we can either turn on each other, or we can come together and turn on it."
-Chip Gaines
Joanna Gaines
#7. Hall nodded as he skimmed the manuscript of Gaines' upcoming book, The Future of the Past.
Brandt Legg
#8. Best of all, as happy as Chip Gaines was, he seemed happiest around me.
I'm a generally happy person. My mom says I was a happy baby. But it's a fact--I was always happiest around Jo. And I still am.
Joanna Gaines
#9. This book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every person I've ever *been*
- Greg Gaines (CHARACTER), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews
#10. If I had planned my life, it never would have ended up like this. So maybe it's kind of fun not to plan. Maybe it's more fun just to see where life takes you.
Joanna Gaines
#11. I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
Gaines Adams
#12. Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right.
Ernest J. Gaines
#13. It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
Gaines Adams
#17. But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
Ernest Gaines
#18. I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.
Chip Gaines
#19. We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.
Ernest J. Gaines
#20. Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.
Ernest Gaines
#21. I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.
Ernest Gaines
#22. Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.
Ernest Gaines
#23. I have to choose to thrive, even in the pain. Even when it's tough. ... We can do this. God has not brought us this far to let us down now.
Joanna Gaines
#24. There are many, many pricey streets in the Hamptons. There's South Hampton, Bridge Hampton and East Hampton, the three major towns. East Hampton has the largest selection of celebrities.
Steven Gaines
#25. In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.
Ernest Gaines
#27. If you can't find happiness in the ugliness, you're not going to find it in the beauty, either.
Chip Gaines
#28. The natural look is a girl's biggest makeup challenge
Abby Gaines
#29. You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
Ernest Gaines
#30. Sometimes worrying about something is much worse than the actual thing you're worrying about. So really, what's the point in worrying?
Chip Gaines
#31. That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.
Ernest J. Gaines
#32. Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
Gaines Adams
#33. One smile on the battlefield is worth more than a dozen in the tavern
Talon Of Tallasian
Zachania
Joseph Henry Gaines
#34. We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength.
Ernest J. Gaines
#35. I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.
Ernest Gaines
#36. I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
Gaines Adams
#37. I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
Gaines Adams
#38. In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
Ernest Gaines
#39. That got me thinking about the pressure we women and moms are all under these days. It seems as if the standards are so much higher than they were just a few years ago, mainly because of what we see whenever we look on the Internet.
Joanna Gaines
#40. I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
Ernest Gaines
#41. If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.
Ernest Gaines
#42. The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest Gaines
#44. I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
Ernest Gaines
#46. I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Ernest Gaines
#47. So from the age of five to about twenty, religion to me was a matter of 'you do this, and you don't do that, and you do your best to walk the straight line.
Joanna Gaines
#48. Mary Elizabeth's hand flew up again, but Toshi ignored her. Many of his student surveys would come back, with comments that he appeared to be unfeeling. That was untrue. He felt everything. Right now, the main emotion coursing through his body was disdain.
Oliva Gaines
#49. It brought his heart joy to be able to do so much for her and he welcomed the opportunity to be able to show her this side of him as a provider and life mate.
Olivia Gaines
#50. There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.
Steven Gaines
#51. A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
Ernest Gaines
#53. I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
Gaines Adams
#55. You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
Gaines Adams
#56. It's up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now - and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we'll be happy.
Joanna Gaines
#57. Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
Gaines Adams
#58. Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don't know how many pounds he outweighs me by ... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.
Gaines Adams
#59. You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.
Steven Gaines
#60. We didn't know what made "great TV." We were just trying to make a living and trying hard to honor the craft we had both fallen in love with over the years.
Joanna Gaines
#61. The greatest endowment god bestowed on man. ... was reason!
He then took it away with emotion.
Ganasis
Zachania
Joseph Henry Gaines
#62. All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
Ernest Gaines
#63. Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
Steven Gaines
#64. How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
Ernest Gaines
#65. Real love comes with strings you tie yourself.
Abby Gaines
#66. A losing player does not need a bankroll; he needs a budget.
Owen Gaines
#67. The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.
Ernest Gaines
#68. Well, in San Francisco if someone's against you, they know how to vote you out of an area. If someone's against you in Louisiana, or if I wrote a book and they did not like it or me in Louisiana, they might shoot me anytime.
Ernest J. Gaines
#69. I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
Ernest Gaines
#70. He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
Ernest Gaines
#71. Don't quit, and don't give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or times of joy, listen for that still, small voice. Know that God has been there from the beginning - and he will be there until . . . The End.
Joanna Gaines
#72. You bloomed?
I did. If I hadn't married Chip, I might not have ever bloomed.
Joanna Gaines
#73. I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.
Ernest Gaines
#74. I came to think of God as more of a gracious friend who was accompanying me on this journey, a friend who wanted to carry my burdens and speak into my life and shape me into who I really was and who I would become.
Joanna Gaines
#75. Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
Gaines Adams
#76. "You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
Ernest Gaines
#77. The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Ernest Gaines
#78. We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.
Ernest Gaines
#79. I don't think it's irrational or too conservative of me to think, I never want to carry my baby into the county jail ever again.
Is it?
Joanna Gaines
#80. We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
Ernest Gaines
#81. When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.
Ernest Gaines
#82. First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
Gaines Adams
#83. I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
Ernest Gaines
#84. I think it's God that makes people care for people, Jefferson. I think it's God makes children play and people sing. I believe it's God that brings loved ones together. I believe it's God that makes trees bud and food grow out of the earth.
Ernest J. Gaines
#85. There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.
Jesse Andrews
#86. I've always loved magnolia trees and their blooms - there's something so beautiful about a magnolia blossom. It demands attention, and you can't help but love those big, creamy petals and that fragrant smell.
Joanna Gaines
#87. It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.
Steven Gaines
#88. One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was.
Joanna Gaines
#89. My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.
Ernest J. Gaines
#90. Just one moment of madness
Can rescind a lifetime of moments.
Lord Heikan
Joseph Henry Gaines
#91. I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?
Ernest Gaines
#92. Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest Gaines
#93. Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Ernest Gaines
#94. I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be.
Ernest J. Gaines
#95. Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce's family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners and a story in the book titled "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." Regardless of race, regardless of class, that story was universal, he said.
Ernest J. Gaines
#96. One thing I learned there on that beautiful front porch was if I wanted to be successful, if I wanted to do important work one day, I would have to increase my capacity. I had to learn to manage disappointment.
Chip Gaines
#97. You know when two people are right together when wanting the other person keeps you awake at night.
Abby Gaines
#98. Their imperfect record at awards shows was disappointing, sure, but the best prize of all came when, on February 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan name-checked and quoted directly from the movie - where we're going, we don't need roads - in his State of the Union address.
Caseen Gaines
#99. I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.
Jesse Andrews
#100. It is no easy thing to trust in God, to walk away from a career, to give it all up not knowing if you can ever get it back or even come close. But I did it. I heeded his voice, and somehow I found peace about it.
Joanna Gaines
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