Gortimer Gibbons Quotes

#1. Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Charles De Gaulle

#2. In many ways, the system of government, taxation and military organization developed by the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was the envy of Western Europe.

Noel Malcolm

#3. 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

Ed Robertson

#4. I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important.

Robert Sean Leonard

#5. The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

Howard Zinn

#6. I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

Sheridan Smith

#7. Was it man's love to screw the sky with monuments span the bay with orange and silver bridges shuttling structure into structure incorruptible in this endless tie each age impassions be it in stone or steel either in echo or halfheard ruin

Gregory Corso

#8. My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Alessandra Ambrosio

#9. I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

Adriana Trigiani

#10. This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

William Ralph Inge

#11. I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

Barbara Delinsky