Darriel Gilbert Quotes & Sayings

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it. — Hiroko Sakai

He'd give anything to be out there playing instead of standing here watching. Trying to maintain this smile out of respect. He digs into his wrists some more with his nails. Breaks previously broken skin and pulls away. A smear of blood he wipes away with his other hand, rubs off across his dark jeans. Back home his mom is always on him to stop digging, but that only makes him want to dig more."
-exerpt from "Mexican White Boy — Matt De La Pena

There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to do a comedy whose chief characters are photographic enlargements. Those people we see in doorways. Newlyweds, sergeants, dead girls, an anonymous crowd full of mustaches and wrinkles. It should be terrible. If I focus it well, it will possess pathos without consolation. In the midst of those people I will place an authentic fairy. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I just want to keep America safe. Who could be against that? — Lou Barletta

The sun had set. Night had come to the city. How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be. — Keigo Higashino

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. — Frederic Ozanam

I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right. — Stephen Lang

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. — Diane Setterfield

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants. — Michael Pollan

My ideal state as a reader when I'm reading other people is feeling I'm vaguely wasting my time when I'm not reading that novel. — Ian McEwan