Mr Glouberman Quotes

#1. I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

Jenny Offill

#2. Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

Charlie Daniels

#3. Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

Tom Robbins

#4. We are generally very driven and have a high need to be needed or approved of, or special. We often show a pattern of overdoing and overgiving without regard for ourselves.

Dina Glouberman

#5. Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable - and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

David Brin

#6. If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.

Nigel Lawson

#7. Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Guy Finley

#8. Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Bell Hooks

#9. I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

Misha Glouberman

#10. This is the second best gift you've ever given me. He wrapped his arms around her waist, burying his face in her hair. A shudder ran through him. She tightened her arms around him.

Jessica Scott

#11. Two professors who study the science of complexity - Brenda Zimmerman of York University and Sholom Glouberman of the University of Toronto - have proposed a distinction among three different kinds of problems in the world: the simple, the complicated, and the complex.

Atul Gawande