Gimlets Quotes

#1. Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete - that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers. But

Herman Melville

#2. I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

Lea Salonga

#3. It was hell to be so tired, and still care.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

Raymond Chandler

#5. Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

Francis De Sales

#6. The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.

Emile Capouya

#7. The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

Stephen Covey

#8. I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.

Amy Bloom

#9. If others think I am nuts, naive, gullible, and not living in the real world, that's all right, too... I'll gladly stay in what some have called my fictitious world, my happy and peaceful world, a world full of signs of hope.

Ward Foley

#10. [I]t's seeing the invisible problem, not just the obvious problem, that's important, not just for product design, but for everything we do. You see, there are invisible problems all around us, ones we can solve. But first we need to see them, to feel them. - T

Bernadette Jiwa

#11. Well, I reply, using the calm tone I know gets under her skin. I wish I was noble enough not to enjoy it, but I came to terms with my lack of nobility long ago.

Amie Kaufman

#12. Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Marcus Aurelius

#13. Successful minds work like a gimlet
to a single point.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#14. Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely.

Haruki Murakami