Gamboa Quotes

#1. I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa, a teenager in Michigan, later wrote to me, "The sad thing is, after a while, it starts to feel like home". It does, doesn't it?

Brent Runyon

#2. Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.

John Kennedy Toole

#3. Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

Ben Okri

#5. They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.

Joseph O'Connor

#6. Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

Ali Larter

#7. We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but ... when she became our child, the affection came.

Emily Dickinson

#8. Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

Jonathan Winters

#9. I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.

Dylan O'Brien

#10. My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of Mob as I could master-then-And when far afterward-a sudden light on Orchards, or a new fashion in the wind troubled my attention- I felt a palsy, here- the Verses just relieve- (174)

Emily Dickinson

#11. The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

Dave Holland

#12. A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.

Federico Gamboa

#13. As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

Gelsey Kirkland

#14. Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

Susan Rothenberg

#15. I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

Andrew Cuomo

#16. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Winston S. Churchill

#17. The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way
a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable

Robert James Waller