Giraldi Quotes

#1. Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

Jim Butcher

#2. What's happenin', the cakest of all my baby cakes?

Jessica Park

#3. I just thought maybe if we wrote letters, we could talk about whatever we wanted.

Jasinda Wilder

#4. Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.

William Giraldi

#5. But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical.

William Giraldi

#6. I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

Conor Oberst

#7. By popular definition, no one was less Orwellian than Eric Blair.

William Giraldi

#8. I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

William Giraldi

#9. For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.

William Giraldi

#10. It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

Danielle Steel

#11. Please quiet your strange self lest harm come to you.

William Giraldi

#12. The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

Paula Radcliffe

#13. I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out.

Casey Abrams

#14. I'm a whole lot of God-help-us is what I am.

William Giraldi

#15. It's shameful that today's mouthy political expositors aren't better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn't studied Shakespeare?

William Giraldi

#16. When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

Michael Schur

#18. Of course George Orwell was not a saint - he could be unfaithful to his wife and suspicious of democracy, for starters - and it's a good thing, too, because saints are always hard to take seriously.

William Giraldi

#19. This is the real warning of Nineteen Eighty-Four: The danger comes not from our suppressors but from our ovine willingness to be suppressed.

William Giraldi

#20. There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Voltaire

#21. There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Christopher Peterson

#22. At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

Slobodan Milosevic

#23. Your mother would make an excellent interrogator.

Cayla Kluver

#24. Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down south to kill a man.

William Giraldi

#25. Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can't for long conceal the toxic spots on your character - Philip Larkin is Exhibit A - nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.

William Giraldi