Gabriola Quotes & Sayings

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet. — Mindy Kaling

Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country. — Charlotte Casiraghi

Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto. — George Weigel

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. — Christopher Paolini

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity. — Edward Steichen

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.' — Garrett Hedlund

Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Music always sort of sharpened me up, O my brothers, and made me like feel like old Bog himself, ready to make with the old donner and blitzen and have vecks and ptitsas creeching away in my ha ha power. — Anthony Burgess

I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. What a great honor. — Michael Reagan

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less. — Peter Cundill

In all dying our ages are the same. — Maureen Duffy

I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac. — Shanley Caswell

Oh, to be a Chinaman, wished Francie, and have such a pretty toy to count on; oh, to eat all the lichee nuts she wanted and to know the mystery of the iron that was ever hot and yet never stood on a stove. Oh, to paint those symbols with a slight brush and a quick turn of the wrist and to make a clear black mark as fragile as a piece of a butterfly wing! That was the mystery of the Orient in Brooklyn. — Betty Smith

William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a medicine chest he kept locked, but if you were in pain he would open it. He did not like to see his loved ones suffer. If you were infirm he would feed you. He'd appear at your door with a fish wrapped in newsprint and fry it up. He was inaccessible to a girl but I loved him anyway. — Patti Smith

In the nearly total darkness of a Nighttown noon, who notices a few dozen mad children lost in the rafters? — William Gibson