Gemma Burgess Quotes

#1. Your chest is surprisingly hairy.'
'I hope I can't say the same thing about you.

Gemma Burgess

#2. I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. It's always easier to walk away.

Gemma Burgess

#4. See it? Oh, I have no interest in seeing it. Seeing it might get in the way of my opinion.

Richard Greenberg

#5. Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Ellen Potter

#6. Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality ... man is fundamentally mythic ... His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

Clyde S. Kilby

#7. No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.

Margaret Mitchell

#8. Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

Robert Gottlieb

#9. It's not revealing, it's informative.

Gemma Burgess

#10. And I'd rather leave than be the one left.

Gemma Burgess

#11. That's the spark I've been looking for. The spark is the feeling that you were born to be this happy. And that's how I feel right now.

Gemma Burgess

#12. You have to let it go. You can't control everything in life

Gemma Burgess

#13. Most things in life are only as difficult as you allow them to be.

Gemma Burgess

#14. Is there anything worse than feeling alone when you're surrounded by your friends?

Gemma Burgess

#15. Lick hand. Sprinkle salt. Do the shot. Suck the lemon.

Gemma Burgess

#16. The best thing about a busy social life? It helps you avoid reality.

Gemma Burgess

#17. Walked without a destination. Explored without a purpose.

Gemma Burgess

#18. Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.

Larry Bird

#19. The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

James Connolly

#20. When the army doesn't come for you, when no one chooses to fight for you, when no one dives in after you with fairy tales and promises, you write a different story. You write a tale of adventure and chaos, of survival and fortitude, and instead of wishing to be saved, you save yourself.

Kelton Wright

#21. Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Warren Christopher

#22. Plum smiles, sighs, and shakes her head. 'No. You know, I thought Dan was a good guy. Maybe there are no good guys left.

Gemma Burgess

#23. Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?'
'Really? How adorable of me.

Gemma Burgess

#24. I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

Dontrelle Willis

#25. They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere.

Gemma Burgess

#26. Funny how men call it being free and women call it being alone, isn't it?

Gemma Burgess

#27. It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad
It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

Melvin Burgess

#28. Suzanne: I'd rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship.

Gemma Burgess

#29. The French have the perfect word for it: 'flaneur'. It means to stroll around aimlessly but enjoyably, observing life and your surroundings. Baudelaire defined a flaneur as 'a person who walks the city in order to experience it'.

Gemma Burgess

#30. Fake it till you feel it

Gemma Burgess

#31. I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.

Armando Iannucci

#32. Churchill had a black dog. I have singledom,' she says, exhaling theatrically. 'I will die alone.

Gemma Burgess

#33. We kissed, and sparks went off in my chest. At the end of the night he said, 'I know what you're thinking. You're wondering if I'll call tomorrow. I'll do better than that.' He called me the minute I got home and we talked till I fell asleep. I was smitten.

Gemma Burgess

#34. My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

Dante Alighieri

#35. That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

Gemma Burgess

#36. Here's what I think ... There is no unfucked up. People think there is, but there's not. We're all fucked up in different ways. It's simply a question of making your fuck-ups work for you.-Aidan

Gemma Burgess

#37. I've discovered the secret to successful singledom. I'm acting like a man. And it's working.

Gemma Burgess

#38. Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.

Gemma Burgess

#39. Oh Abby ... I want you to know ... I am so full of shit. You should not listen to me. I know nothing.

Gemma Burgess

#40. Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

Mason Cooley

#41. To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

Bernie Sanders

#42. Whenever you break up with someone, you don't just break up with one person. You break up with their family, their friends and their dog. It's sad, inevitable and kind of annoying.

Gemma Burgess