Greg Gaines Quotes

#1. This book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every person I've ever *been*
- Greg Gaines (CHARACTER), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Jesse Andrews

#2. I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.

Walker Evans

#3. Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud - symbols of my passion.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. But that's life, I suppose. You're born good, and over time it gets drilled out of you. Doesn't matter how much good you do in the world, you'll always end up hurt by others, and eventually it all becomes too much to take.

Alex Jackson

#5. The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#6. It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

Ray Comfort

#7. Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since before training camp.

Gaines Adams

#8. 'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

Scott Turow

#9. I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.

Jesse Andrews

#10. Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.

Jesse Andrews

#12. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

Jan Struther

#13. When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

Hubert Burda

#14. The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.

Bill Vaughan

#15. I get to choose the people I work with.

Scott Ellis

#16. You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

William Shakespeare

#17. What is fear but darkness

Geoffrey Storm

#18. Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

Chuck D

#19. Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that?

Ayn Rand