Top 18 Gulley Jimson Quotes

#1. The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

Joyce Cary

#2. The difficulty that accompanies you is less like the dark than a trusted lantern to see your way by.

Eudora Welty

#3. In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

Eli Pariser

#4. Hurry," Hector urged, and his voice changed as his power surged, his tone and cadence sliding into the rhythm that said he was seeing the future. "Battle is in the air. I smell it. I can almost touch it. Death is coming Death is coming for us." With a click, the call disconnected.

Linda Howard

#5. I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

Ann Brashares

#6. I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

Mads Mikkelsen

#7. I don't know what it is. I simply can't stand it. It's like a hand reaching out of the dark. It is fear - blind fear as if it were lying in wait somewhere for me.

Erich Maria Remarque

#8. An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.

Christopher Walken

#9. Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.

Joyce Cary

#10. They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?'
'Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.

Joyce Cary

#11. You are my life."
-Maris

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. You'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.

Charles Dickens

#13. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Joyce Cary

#14. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

Joyce Cary

#15. America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Thomas Friedman

#16. If someone breaks up, it's an opportunity to revamp yourself; this time better and stronger than before.

Vikrmn

#17. Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against!
Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it ...

Jeff Smith

#18. The work of art itself is ... a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

Susan Sontag

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