Correspondents Gervais Quotes & Sayings

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove

We see things as we are, not as they are... — Anais Nin

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore. — Aldous Huxley

If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues - we are not conscious of it but it is always going on. — Oswald Chambers

Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood. — Isaac Marion

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there. — Kurt Cobain

Matter and energy are the same thing, that size is an illusion, and that time is a material substance. — Madeleine L'Engle

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't. — Mark Twain

Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No homework to do, just a Sunday when you could do what you wanted. She always gave me this kick-back-and-relax, Sunday-morning kind of feeling. — Haruki Murakami

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy. — Jimmy Carr