Wilbur Larch Quotes

#1. Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at last." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he'd come a long way and still had a long way to go.

John Irving

#2. Always be suspicious of easy work, Dr. Wilbur Larch once said to Homer Wells.

John Irving

#3. You are my work of art," Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. "Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if you've got a work of art in you," Larch concluded in his letter to Homer, "but I know what your job is,and you know what it is, too.

John Irving

#4. In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without - we just do without.

John Irving

#5. It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box.

John Irving

#6. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Hariom Sisodia

#7. The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!

Catherynne M Valente

#9. My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#10. Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#11. 'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

Stanley Hauerwas

#12. The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Billy Joel

#14. Dom is generous, loving and respectful to not only his submissive, but all women. He is gentlemanly in public, but playful in private and a savage in the bedroom.

Ella Dominguez

#15. There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

Jimmy Page