Grandpa Gohan Quotes

#1. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

Washington Irving

#3. This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.

Olive Schreiner

#4. Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Matthew Arnold

#5. I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift ... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

Jess Walter

#6. You can't throw us into space," yelled Ford, "we're trying to write a book." "Resistance is useless!" shouted the Vogon guard back at him. It was the first phrase he'd learned when he joined the Vogon Guard Corps.

Douglas Adams

#7. God will fulfil His gracious promises.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.

Ramez Naam

#9. It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

Roger Ballen

#10. Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

John Dryden

#11. Just so you know,' I explained, remembering my own earlier arrogance, 'if you've ever owned a cat and therefore think you know how to handle a puma, you don't. It would be like playing with sharks because you once owned a goldfish.

Peter Allison

#12. I was quiet, but I was not blind.

Jane Austen

Bhamini Ravishankar

#13. A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

Howard Jacobson