Guirgis Quotes

#1. I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#2. Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Plato

#3. I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#4. I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.

Eva Longoria

#5. She's mine. She always has been, she always will be.

Tarryn Fisher

#6. O!" Sunny shrieked.
"O!" Klaus agreed.
"O!" Sunny insisted.
"Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean! ...

Lemony Snicket

#7. A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader ... as an irritating voice is to a listener.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. God is fucking stealing souls again!

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#9. I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#10. And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.

Sophie Scholl

#11. We need time so to can explain the stuff in easy way.

Deyth Banger

#12. I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#13. I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#14. How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#16. JACKIE. I swear to God: Being in love with Veronica - it's like feeding your love to Godzilla every morning, and every morning you go "Yo, 'Zilla, these shits are very delicate so please chew softly", - and every morning - the motherfucker just goes crunch!

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#17. I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#19. Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer

Munia Khan

#20. The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#21. When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#22. I used to have Santa and the whole coal thing, but between Wade and their father, the little shits get whatever they want. They no longer feel like they need the fat bastard!

Ethan Day

#23. I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

Winslow Homer

#24. Close your eyes. Let a smile as big bright and bold as a disco chorus blaze across your face. Fall in love with the universe and everything in it. See yourself for one moment as the subject of every love song ever written. And as she drifts to sleep beside you, start a brand new song.

J.C. Lillis