Gadder Quotes & Sayings

Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crystal pail. Why him wun up the tree? Why him nest up theah? Why him gadder nuts? Why? Why? Why? And Billy answering every question to the best of his ability, as if anything less would disrespect the deep and maybe even divine force that drove his little nephew toward universal knowledge. — Ben Fountain

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist. — Morgan Spurlock

For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses. — Stefan Zweig

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion. — Lincoln Steffens

Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London. — Tadashi Yanai

Steve had a remarkable knack for letting go of things that didn't work. If you were in an argument with him, and you convinced him that you were right, he would instantly change his mind. He didn't hold on to an idea because he had once believed it to be brilliant. His ego didn't attach to the suggestions he made, even as he threw his full weight behind them. — Ed Catmull

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do. — Ruth Ozeki

Oh, shit." It wasn't the most intelligent thing that Sloane had ever said, but considering the circumstances, she thought she was doing pretty well. The pretty Indian woman in the lab coat who had collapsed into her arms didn't react to the profanity. Sloane gave her an experimental shake. She didn't react to that either, and so Sloane shook her harder, hoping that maybe that would do something. All it did was cause the strange woman's arms and head to flop around until Sloane started to worry about accidentally breaking her neck. The paperwork for that would be, well, murder. Not to be crass or anything. — Seanan McGuire

Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress. — Totie Fields

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience. — William H. McMaster

One thing: I can damn well wear lipstick. — Sophie Kinsella

Psychologically, there are two major reasons why people conform - they want to be liked and they want to be right. — Leigh L. Thompson

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world. — Natalie Massenet

But angry like he was now? It did something to me. Made me ache harder for him. Want him just that much more.
My heroine, Paige Bergeron speaking about her hero,in Watch Me. — Riley Murphy

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. — Laurell K. Hamilton