Gombrowicz Diary Quotes

#1. I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

Adam Clayton

#2. It may seem demeaning to the vanity of some individuals, but like all elements of the mind, God and all its correlated sensations of divinity are the majestic creations of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

Helen Keller

#4. And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you are allowed to eat anything you want. Often just knowing we can eat whatever we want is enough to keep us from eating whatever we want. We're so rebellious.

Rory Freedman

#5. Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz

#6. His two podium candidates looked like two blokes who had just got up from the Christmas buffet.

Bjarne Riis

#7. There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

H.L. Mencken

#8. But being rational about it didn't cure it.

Colum McCann

#9. blessed are the storytellers, because they can bridge oceans, marshal great forces, inspire and instruct, transcend all limits, transform hearts and minds. They can break down barriers and be the common thread for disparate humanities, reaching across distant borders.

Ron Perlman

#10. If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.

Jonathan Tropper

#11. Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.

Carlo Grante

#12. Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.

Ron Howard

#13. I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

DMX

#14. What I feel for you...it can be neither quantified nor defined. It is so profound, so revolutionary, that no methods to date are equipped to even measure it. A new word should be imagined just to express the depth and scope of it, because 'love' does not even come close.

Joanna Shupe

#15. Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

J. Cole