Top 17 Jack Gordon Quotes
#2. There were other things than love upon which to thrive." (MT, p140)
Steven Erikson
#4. Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
Indira Gandhi
#5. Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire. The owner of the farm had written:
'Burned out by drought,
Drowned out by flud waters,
Et out by jack-rabbits,
Sold out by sheriff,
STILL HERE.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#6. The world may think it idiotic,
Nor care at all we're symbiotic,
But I will say at once and twice:
I find it nice. I find it nice.
Edward Gorey
#7. It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.
John C. Maxwell
#8. I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"
Mitch Hedberg
#9. I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
Jason Mitchell
#12. There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.
Holly Black
#13. 68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share.
Roberto Bolano
#14. My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
Jack McDevitt
#15. When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
Gordon Getty
#16. I'd donated everything I was to those I loved. I would die for them. I would survive for them. And nothing was better than that. Nothing.
Pepper Winters
#17. I don't want balance. What I want is the brick! I want to find the one thing in my life that, if I get that right, it doesn't matter what the world throws onto the other side of the scale.
Emily Watts