Top 100 Quotes About Gail
#1. I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.
Gail Carson Levine
#2. Excellent. Ignorance is most undervalued in a student.
Gail Carriger
#3. You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?
Gail Mazur
#4. Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked.
'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a fork in his right hand like a child or an American. He smiled.
Gail Honeyman
#5. If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
Gail Sheehy
#6. Amber won't mind if we both dance with her, will you?
Gail McHugh
#7. Not Alec Weebs? Never! Biffy was appreciatively shocked.
Gail Carriger
#8. The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
#9. Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
Gail Parent
#10. Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
Gail Caldwell
#11. It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every time he pushed in one direction the earl either oozed or crumbled.
Gail Carriger
#12. I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
Gail Carriger
#13. Well, I am terribly concerned for your health. One simply should not weigh so much at your age. Lady Maccon poked at a sagging carrot and wondered if anyone would miss her dear sister were she to be oh-so-gently tipped over the rail of the upper deck.
Gail Carriger
#14. I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
Gail Collins
#15. There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
Gail Carriger
#16. One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.
Gail Godwin
#18. I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
Gail Porter
#19. Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.
Gail Carriger
#20. Don't get between me and my chocolate!
Gail Koger
#21. One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.
Gail Collins
#22. Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
Gail Collins
#23. You'll never have to feel me touch you again, Emily. You'll never have to hear my voice. You'll never have to wake up to me by your side again. Tell me right now that you don't love me, and I'm gone . . . forever.
Gail McHugh
#24. Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
Gail Carson Levine
#25. No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
Gail Sheehy
#26. There's not a man on Earth who doesn't wish he was me right now. Your mind and your body will never forget the things I'm going to do to you tonight. Every ... single ... inch of your body is going to feel me."
"Oh my God."
"Yes.
Gail McHugh
#27. I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.
Gail Godwin
#28. I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
Gail Carriger
#29. There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
Gail Collins
#30. She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.
Ayn Rand
#31. Really, Channing," remonstrated Alexia, "did you have to eat the man's dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
Gail Carriger
#32. I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.
Gail Devers
#33. My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
Gail Caldwell
#34. How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
Gail Godwin
#35. You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?
Gail Collins
#36. Some of the most disagreeable people I know are the most ladylike.
Gail Carriger
#37. Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?
Gail Giles
#38. I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.
Gail Devers
#40. You think you can just rid me from your thoughts? You can't. You're mine, Emily. Fucking mine, he growled.
McHugh, Gail (2013-09-17). Collide: Book One in the Collide Series (p. 363). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.
Gail McHugh
#41. Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.
Gail Carson Levine
#42. I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
Gail Godwin
#43. The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
Gail Collins
#44. Even children, Lady Linette said, must be allowed some time to conspire together.
Gail Carriger
#46. In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
Gail Carson Levine
#47. Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.
Gail Collins
#49. In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
Gail Simmons
#50. Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.
Gail Carriger
#51. Each time you look at me the way you do, lay a shaky hand on my body, or your soft lips touch mine, you make me thank God for being a man.
Gail McHugh
#52. I have always been hers. Although she is taking her time accepting it." "I
Gail Carriger
#53. You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone." The
Gail Carriger
#54. I felt like a newly laid egg, all swishy and gloopy inside, and so fragile that the slightest pressure could break me.
Gail Honeyman
#55. Professor Braithwope was undergoing a very dangerous test indeed. For queen and country, the potentate had said. For science, Sophronia thought.
Gail Carriger
#56. There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
Gail Collins
#57. I'm always weeping at something or other.
Gail Porter
#58. Fate and the roads that get placed in front of us. It's like one huge puzzle that ultimately fits in the end.
Gail McHugh
#59. I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
Gail Sheehy
#60. Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.
Gail Tsukiyama
#61. Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
Gail Godwin
#62. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#63. Sometimes wrong decision leads you to the right person
Gail McHugh
#64. He seemed to have a story no one had bothered to discover
Gail Tsukiyama
#65. The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.
Gail Carriger
#66. I liked my zone small, and I didn't want visitors.
Gail Giles
#67. Ah, to be young and agile again,' said Primrose.
'We were never that young,' replied Rue.
'More to the point, we were never that agile,' said Prim with a soft smile.
Gail Carriger
#68. Most likely Pistons," said Pillover in a resigned tone of voice. "You told them about the ball. They like to go to events uninvited, put gin in the punch, and steal all the spoons. Stylish shenanigans like that."
"Charming," said Sophronia.
Gail Carriger
#69. I rode all day.
I cried all night.
The moon didn't glow.
The sun didn't rise.
A comet blazed
Between my eyes.
West and South,
Wind and rain.
Every way is
Just the same.
Pray give me a box
To hide inside.
Pray give me a spade
To dig my own grave.
Gail Carson Levine
#70. After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
Gail Carriger
#71. Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.
Gail Caldwell
#72. Such poopitations of the heart as you would not believe.
Gail Carriger
#73. Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
Gail Devers
#74. She wasn't actually chewing gum, but her demeanor was very much that of a gum chewer.
Gail Honeyman
#76. You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
Gail Porter
#77. My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.
Gail Sheehy
#78. She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.
Gail Godwin
#79. What's wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.
Gail Carriger
#80. Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.
Gail Carriger
#81. In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gail Devers
#82. I don't know if he'll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself.
Gail McHugh
#83. I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
Gail Simmons
#84. I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
Gail Sheehy
#85. Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
Gail Sheehy
#86. There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
Gail Simmons
#88. He might have stolen her breath the first time they kissed, but there and then - stealthy like a cat burglar - he was trying to steal her heart.
Gail McHugh
#89. To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?
Ayn Rand
#90. Fate had a weird way of circling back over paths that were meant to cross.
Gail McHugh
#91. When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
Gail Collins
#92. Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.
Gail Carriger
#93. Floote, what is going on? Do they think I
am contagious? Should I assure them I was
born with a nose this size?
Gail Carriger
#94. At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
Gail Godwin
#95. I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
Gail Simmons
#96. I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
Gail Sheehy
#97. The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins
#98. The territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.
Gail Caldwell
#99. My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers
#100. He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.
Gail Carriger
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