Gorian Artifact Quotes

#1. Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

Mallory Ortberg

#2. A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.

Heather Graham

#3. Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

David Maister

#4. London now has its own John Grisham.

Mark Billingham

#5. Family time was hard when it was your own family, it had to be twice as hard when you were the girlfriend.

Jennifer Close

#6. But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can't say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that's important is left unspoken.

Peter Kirby

#7. Something has to die for forgiveness to take place. (Maya Angelou or Brene Brown)

Kit Crumpton

#8. The future is unwritten. What will be will be.

James Frey

#9. Gyuri had dropped church much in the same way he had stopped believing in Santa Claus; there came a point where it was impossible to take it seriously.

Tibor Fischer

#10. It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

David Foster Wallace

#11. Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it.

Jack LaLanne

#12. Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Brandon Boyd

#13. proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.

John Tomlinson

#14. Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Sheena Easton