Gabfest Podcast Quotes & Sayings

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. — Carol Burnett

If you can think of life, for a moment, as a large house with a nursery, living and dining rooms, bedrooms, study, and so forth, all unfamiliar and bright, the chapters which follow are, in a way, like looking through the windows of this house. Certain occupants will be glimpsed only briefly. Visitors come and go. At some windows you may wish to stay longer, but alas. As with any house, all within cannot be seen. — James Salter

Life is but thought. — Sara Teasdale

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests. — Michael Eric Dyson

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag. — Bob Hope

More things in this world have been accomplished in this world by persistence than by wisdom. — Elaine Cunningham

In life I Have learned a lot of things, One of the main things I learned is that If you waste your time with problem women you will end up with nothing but women problems — Kenny D. Eichenberg

Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike bigfoot or the loch ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding ones soulmate. Rare. Precious. Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to this magnificent creature was to become empathetic. Abandon all pretense and preconceptions. To bare an open throat. To collapse into the arms of vulnerability. All but extinct, these beings/moments are threatened by the black hearted. The cold and oblivious. The empty eyed profit seekers that overlook these rare precious moments. — Maynard James Keenan

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle.

He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away. — Michael Reisman

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate. — Jane Fonda

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be. — Maureen Johnson

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. — Wassily Kandinsky

I'm definitely not a fearless individual. — Serena Williams

I am worn to a raveling. — Beatrix Potter