Gunda Gardi Quotes

#1. It seems to me that dealing with little boys is a lot like playing poker. You need to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away. But the most important thing you need to know is, oral contraceptives are only 97 percent effective.

Paula Wall

#2. You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

S.A. Tawks

#3. Sophie found philosophy doubly exciting because she was able to follow all the ideas by using her own common sense - without having to remember everything she had learned at school. She decided that philosophy was not something you can learn; but perhaps you can learn to think philosophically.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight for you. You need to remember that.

R.L. Griffin

#5. I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this job ended tomorrow I'd find another way to find that glorious feeling of accomplishment. No employer or career choice "made" me. I made me...

Megyn Kelly

#6. We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.

Moshe Safdie

#7. Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

Anne Rice

#8. It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#9. Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.

Michael Parenti

#10. Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

Joni Mitchell

#11. We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. His voice was that kind you get from smoking three packs a day and then spending all night howling at the moon.

E.W. Storch

#13. During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.

Tony McCoy

#14. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

Alexander McCall Smith