Ala Gertner Quotes & Sayings

I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman. — Marcia Clark

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. — Henry Petroski

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. — Miguel De Unamuno

Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire. — Adolf Hitler

Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control. — Bryant McGill

Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men's talk without listening to it, could think - about the education of children, about the use of fog sirens in an opera - without betraying herself. Only it struck Helen that Rachel was perhaps too still for a hostess, and that she might have done something with her hands. — Virginia Woolf

Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how. — Kim Harrison

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. — Anne Lamott

The drum, at any rate, from its martial voice and notable physiological effect, nay, even from its cumbrous and comical shape, stands alone among the instruments of noise. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna ... I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way ... like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate. — Mike Patton

I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment. — Thomas Mann

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying. — Christopher Isherwood