Gabbiani Panel Quotes & Sayings

One thing is certain: Yelling at someone who is already out of control can only lead to further dysregulation. Just as your dog cowers if you shout and wags his tail when you speak in a high singsong, we humans respond to harsh voices with fear, anger, or shutdown and to playful tones by opening up and relaxing. We simply cannot help but respond to these indicators of safety or danger. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Being randy is the next best thing to being drunk. — George R R Martin

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile. — Nicholas Sparks

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness. — David Bowie

I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side. — Hayden Panettiere

In second grade my second love wrote "I love you" on a scrap of paper and dropped it on my desk as he passed by. He was very shy and sullen. When he moved to another school at the end of the term, I was heartsick. I thought about him all summer. But I learned then that we do outgrow people and our tastes do change. One should not marry until one is older. At least ten. — Jane Russell

Time travel is such a magic concept. — Matt Smith

Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.' — Lance Henriksen

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand. — John Updike

I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?' — Harvey Pekar

Gulls fly overhead
While waves slap against rocks
From dusk till dawn. — Abigail George

Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I want to sleep for half a second,
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive ... — Federico Garcia Lorca

I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing. — Eric Bana