Gaillardes Culture Quotes & Sayings

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you. — Emily Giffin

He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling that he had only just grown up. It occured to him that he was merely repeating the destiny of every human being. Everyone rebels against the money-code, and everyone sooner or later surrenders. He had kept up his rebellion a little longer than most, that was all. And he had made such a wretched failure of it! — George Orwell

It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed. — Homer Bone

The thing is that there are obviously different ways to think about these kinds of situations. — David Foster Wallace

There is nothing like raising a child in a home filled with love and respect ... to watch them blossom as an adult, filled with hopes and dreams and good intentions. Dedicated to our son, my coauthor, J.R. Matheson. We wish you all the best Justin! Love you. — Lee Bice-Matheson

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie. — Javier Bardem

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact. — Chuck Berry

No self-respecting blowfly wants to lay eggs in acid. — Robert Galbraith

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. — Henry Fielding