Gakidis Quotes & Sayings

I know it looks like a straw mop but I don't look like the girl on that magazine do I? — Elle Klass

I can't change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I'd go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I'd make sure that you smiled." My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. "Every minute of my future belongs to you. — Penelope Douglas

We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad. — Don Meyer

But on that particular day I did not even begin to feel interested in this chore, and was suddenly more deeply bored than I have ever been before, and just turned around and went back inside. Which made me wonder why I wanted to do this chore at all, on other days, and also which was real: my slight interest on other days or my profound boredom now. And it made me wonder if I really should be profoundly bored by this chore all the time and never do it again, and if there was something wrong with my mind that I was not bored by it all the time. — Lydia Davis

I've grown to fond of the stars to be fearful of the night. — Galileo

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. — Ken Follett

Because I'm the monster that parents tell their children at night? — Loki Laufeyson

I still think Connie was a human man, a very, very good one - but a man. I have been wrong in my judgments many times before; if now I am ignorant and blind, I'm sorry, but it's no new thing. If that should be the case though, it means that I have had great privileges in my life, perhaps more so than any man alive today. Because it means that on the fields and farms of England, on the airstrips of the desert and the jungle, in the hangars of the Persian Gulf and on the tarmacs of the southern islands, I have walked and talked with God. — Nevil Shute

Be who you are. / Give what you have. — Rose Auslander

Nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past. — Ben Lerner

Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are icebergs, solid and immense, forcing incalculable eddies to swirl around them. — Thomm Quackenbush

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying. — Yann Martel

Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different. — George Harrison

Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly. — Thomm Quackenbush

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs. — O. Henry