Gertie Et Quotes

#1. Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

Linda Sunshine

#2. The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.

John Key

#3. I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Kate Grenville

#4. That night at Gertie's when she asked me if I preferred to be the one who loved slightly more or loved slightly less. More, I said. Not this time, she said in my ear. I am the one who will always love more. I didn't say, But I love without needing to own. Because I didn't know the difference then.

Lily King

#5. According to the local gossip," Gertie said, "Beulah was over the moon for this guy. She even mailed him a pair of her underwear." "If he was really a marine," Ida Belle said, "he could have used them as a parachute.

Jana Deleon

#6. Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

Khalil Gibran

#7. There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Rick Reilly

#8. Weird or someone with mouth diarrhea. Depends on people's point of view,

Stephanie Witter

#9. One time," Gertie said. "You go out into a hurricane one time and you never hear the end of it.

Jana Deleon

#10. Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Victor Hugo

#11. lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays

Edna O'Brien