Gavlan Dialogue Quotes

#1. As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

Maurissa Tancharoen

#2. We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil - she, as mistress, I, as slave.

Frederick Douglass

#3. I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

David Copperfield

#4. Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.

Elizabeth I

#5. Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

A. Philip Randolph

#6. If all the priests go we all want to be married and the pope goes all priests should be married than I say go for it.

Lino Rulli

#7. Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own "real" world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

Leonard S. Marcus

#8. If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.

David Hayter

#9. Allow the child to be authentic, to move, to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are.

Magda Gerber

#10. A town without a bookstore is an empty shell of a place.

Ellery Adams

#11. All I've got to do today is smile.

Paul Simon

#12. There's a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I'm always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.

Mindy Kaling

#13. And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

Juan Goytisolo

#14. We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.

Kilroy J. Oldster