Gandolfos Meridian Quotes

#1. When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

Epictetus

#2. Royce stared at him a second. "What?"

"You heard me-you hear every stupid thing anyone ever says. That's the most annoying thing about you. Well, not the most -it's actually really hard to order them. The list is so ridiculously long.

Michael J. Sullivan

#3. I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

#4. I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

Maria Shriver

#5. Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Rosa Luxemburg

#6. I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Evan Hunter

#7. I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Helen Garner

#8. One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

Robert Breault

#9. You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Nigella Lawson

#10. Being alive always seems to be the price of something.

Julio Cortazar

#11. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Dave Eggers