Herbert Gans Quotes

#1. I had nothing to offer anybody except for my own confusion

Jack Kerouac

#2. More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Curt Schilling

#3. Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

Michael Douglas

#4. Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -
That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.
The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),
The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Alexander Pope

#5. I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

Debby Ryan

#6. For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

Vikas Swarup

#7. Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he'd never felt more alive.

Clive Barker

#8. I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

Maya Angelou

#9. Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.

Lloyd Dobyns

#10. This - he gestured impatiently at himself - is just a fucking shell. You're what drives me, Eva. Can you understand that? You're my heart and soul. If something ever happened to you, it would kill me, too. Keeping you safe is goddamned self-preservation!

Sylvia Day