Top 28 Michael Gruber Quotes
#1. Envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to ...
Michael Gruber
#2. But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
Michael Gruber
#3. You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship, and mutual support. You see feudalism, we see mutual responsibility. You see the oppression of women, we see the defense of modesty.
Michael Gruber
#4. I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.
Michael Gruber
#5. The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.
Alistair Brownlee
#6. The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
Michael Gruber
#7. And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.
Vladimir Nabokov
#8. It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.
Michael Gruber
#9. Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.
Michael Gruber
#10. Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley
Robert B. Parker
#11. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?
Michael Gruber
#12. You can overcome anything...short of death.
Abi Ketner
#13. 'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
Michael Gruber
#14. We must not allow our elected officials -many beholden to unaccountable corporate elites- to bastardize and pulverize the precious word democracy as they fail to respect and act on genuine democratic ideals
Cornel West
#15. Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings.
Michael Gruber
#16. I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.
Jeb Bush
#17. Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
Michael Gruber
#19. But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.
Michael Gruber
#20. Men are very foolish to take airs on themselves, because they are rich. After all, money cannot do much for its owners. It will not enable a man to redeem either his brother or himself from untimely or sudden death. "A million of money for a moment of time!" cried Queen Elizabeth on her deathbed.
F.B. Meyer
#21. As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
Michael Gruber
#22. JORGEN COULD NOT take his eyes off Odette. The mask somehow made her even more mysterious . . . and desirable.
Melanie Dickerson
#23. I've dreamed again of being in hell, vast cliffs with eyes, iron streets populated with gargoyles, half-dressed harpies, and in the streets chariots going of themselves, spitting the stench of pitch and sulphur
Michael Gruber
#25. Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
Plato
#27. I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
Jim Carrey
#28. That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears.
Michael Gruber
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