Top 43 Gurney's Quotes
#1. Gurney's a romantic," the Duke growled. This talk of killing suddenly disturbed him, coming from his son. "I'd sooner you never had to kill ... but if the need arises, you do it however you can - tip or edge." He looked up at the skylight, on which the rain was drumming.
Frank Herbert
#2. Gurney says there's no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.
Frank Herbert
#3. A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.
A.R. Gurney
#4. Phantasms of the Living, by Gurney and Podmore.
Dion Fortune
#5. What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.
Frank Herbert
#6. Survival of all or none.
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies even to their owners.
Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen, and learn.
Do one thing at a time.
Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
James Gurney
#7. A moment well spent is the best accomplishment. Yesterday is a phantom and tomorrow a mirage. The only day worth living is this one. If we can do that wekl, the yesterdays and tomorrows take care of themselves
James Gurney
#9. Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.
Eric Gurney
#10. The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.
Eric Gurney
#13. As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.
Julie Anne Peters
#14. In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.
Gurney Norman
#15. Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.
James Gurney
#16. There are strange hells within the minds war made ...
Ivor Gurney
#17. There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. (p. 12)
James Gurney
#18. I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.
Kerry Max Cook
#20. I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.
S.J Perelman
#22. I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?
Frank Herbert
#23. So I think I'll stay here a little while longer. There's plenty of time to get off this gurney and open that door and rejoin the rest of you.
There's all the time I have left on Earth.
There's the rest of my life.
Ilsa J. Bick
#24. A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.
Ivor Gurney
#25. Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.
Gurney Williams
#26. In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.
Ivor Gurney
#27. Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.
Darrell Gurney
#28. The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.
Ivor Gurney
#31. Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it.
James Gurney
#32. If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.
James Gurney
#33. Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.
Frank Herbert
#34. For her, people in general were a plus, a source of positive stimulation (with exceptions such as the predatory Sonya Reynolds). For Gurney, people in general were a minus, a drain on his energy (with exception such as the encouraging Sonya Reynolds).
John Verdon
#35. Life is a one way journey,
so don't sit on a gurney,
enjoy the ride,
with love and pride.
Debasish Mridha
#36. I missed all the good stuff," I said, looking down at the gardens awash in early-morning light and cops. "Such as the gurney with the body bag?
Roberta Pearce
#38. They've lost the initiative, which means they've lost the war. Gurney
Frank Herbert
#40. =Doughnuts= 1 Egg 1 Cupful of Milk 1 and 1/3 Cupfuls of Sugar 2 Teaspoonfuls of Cream of Tartar 1 Teaspoonful of Soda Piece of Butter the Size of a Walnut 1/4 Teaspoonful of Cinnamon or Nutmeg Salt, and Flour enough to
Lydia Maria Gurney
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