Mrs Gamp Sayings

#1. With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [ ... ]

Charles Dickens

#2. If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

George Orwell

#3. Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Gary Chapman

#4. Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations, said Ron, to general astonishment.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Steel weighs more than wind.

George R R Martin

#6. Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but - much like golf - turns out it's all in the swing.

Rachel Vincent

#7. You've known this for a while, Ryan. I'm sure of it. At the first mention of poetry, you knew this one was about you. You had to. Though I'm sure you must have thought, This can't be why I'm on the tapes. It wasn't a big deal.

Jay Asher

#8. On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.

Charles Dance

#9. It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

Ryan Lochte

#11. I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new.
-Dani

Karen Marie Moning

#12. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

#13. When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Louis Navellier

#14. Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#15. Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

Thomas Sowell

#16. The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.
Yet still, they began their journeys.

Mike Dooley

#17. Some promises are better left unsaid

Ashlee Simpson