Gullen Quotes

#1. My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

Ferid Murad

#2. When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

Augusta Stowe-Gullen

#3. A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

Ray Bradbury

#4. The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Maybe there was relief to be found in the prospect of having no choice.

Stefan Merrill Block

#6. Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

Dave Barry

#7. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Frank Herbert

#8. As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money ... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

Shahrukh Khan

#9. I build my world with the pages of a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I won't discuss non-discussable things with her, like the sound of silence or the vertical dimensions of an awkward moment. Those sorts of things are best left unsaid, like the last time I told her I loved her.

Jarod Kintz

#11. John lowered the book he'd been reading.
"Im sorry. Were you speaking to me?"
"I know you were listening, " I said in disgust, taking the book from him and tossing it over the side of the bed. "You couldn't possibly have been reading that. You were holding it upside down.

Meg Cabot