Gabbitas Quotes & Sayings

I'm not myself," she said and then laughed maniacally, "but God knows who I am. — Kate Atkinson

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. — Richard Leakey

Draw a breath,
a deep breath,
now hold it, my friends,
hold it long
for the world
the world drowns. — Steven Erikson

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want. — Chuck Klosterman

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives. — Andy Cohen

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. — Erich Fromm

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place. — Harlan Coben

I would like to have a 'Lost' clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top. — Henry Ian Cusick

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal. — Bill Dedman

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together. — Charles Caleb Colton

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Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on. — Chang-rae Lee

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus. — H.L. Mencken

He felt the slowly healing polarization of his mind, matching his to hers, the alignment of all his prejudices and conceits to the lodestone of the image she represented for him. — Iain M. Banks

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office. — Peter Dinklage

After being loomed over and pressed menacingly against a wall, George had, while looking into those bloodshot eyes, truly feared for his life. — C.J. Hill