Gabble Def Quotes & Sayings

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. — Dale Carnegie

You can't have adventures without poetry. — Avi

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat. — Laura Lippman

If it wasn't a mystery, it would be easy. If it were easy, it wouldn't be worth much. — Seth Godin

Sister Walburga ate some of the sausage she was taking upriver for the anchorites, but you'd think from her distress that she was a Horseman of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon rolled into one. — Ariana Franklin

Racism still exists in the U.S., but we have the strength and courage to overcome it. — Leonard Seet

There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it. — Greg James

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits. — Pope Leo XIII

But the best part of catching Neil in the shower was, hands down, the loud, awful singing. — Abigail Barnette

Hardness shatters; strength endures. — Robert Jordan

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home. — Sarah Helen Whitman

The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical text of Sanskrit literature, afforded me ample opportunities of gaining close contact with Sanskrit savants of Kashmir, the land where traditional learning of Hindu India had flourished in old times greatly and survived until recent years. — Aurel Stein