Gervis Myles Quotes

#1. Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Frank Harris

#2. People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.

Neville Brody

#3. A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

Charles Spurgeon

#4. It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

James Payn

#5. You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

Martin Freeman

#6. Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Walt Whitman

#7. Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

Charles Lamb

#8. I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl (AS: I don't share that part of her feelings fully). I remember the moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life.

Jan Morris

#9. Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Lemony Snicket

#11. We cannot believe, we men, that power will ever reside happily in the body of a woman, unless that power is a male child. Not true power. The power must be in male hands, God-given. That's what our fathers tell us, idiots that they are

Clive Barker

#12. Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

Victoria Principal

#13. You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

Terri Irwin

#14. Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

James Huneker