Top 18 Guv'nor Quotes
#1. Mace leaned on his shovel and did a passable imitation. "'I think we'd rather not.' Very good, guv'nor. I'll remember that next time."
"Divigation was nice. Where'd you get that one?"
"He swallowed a ****ing dictionary," Corporal Nettle said proudly.
Ian McEwan
#2. Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
Plato
#3. She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.
Crissi Langwell
#4. 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.
James Fenton
#5. Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
Saint John Chrysostom
#6. When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
William Monahan
#7. We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
Bob Dole
#8. Birth and death frame a life, give it shape. Without that border it just becomes a kind of sprawling mess, a thing with no edge, no definition, no centre.
Alastair Reynolds
#9. Heaven set couples for babies' birth.
Toba Beta
#10. Trouble was coming, sure, but it's always coming, and meanwhile it's best to live with a smile.
Dean Koontz
#11. The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
Herbert A. Simon
#12. Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to modernize. Schoolchildren in the Soviet era were taught that they lived in the richest country in the world. In this case communist propaganda was true
Fareed Zakaria
#13. There is light underwater, even at night, but it is a far cry from the lights that we all know and love... the light by which the reaper reads his list.
Tom Robbins
#14. A poisonous seed will only kill you if you chew it and swallow.
Amy Stewart
#15. PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.
Ronn Torossian
#16. The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.
Karin Lowachee
#18. Remember guls," preached Mrs. Gulbenk, always holding the most perfect red tomato in her hand for all of us to admire, "you can fry 'em, bake 'em, stew 'em, and congeal 'em. A good wife and mutha will always have a tomata on hand.:
Susan Gregg Gilmore
