Galliard Quotes & Sayings

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time. — Paul Erdos

Gardens come and go, but I find myself getting attached to certain perennials. My tulips are bridesmaids, with fat faces and good posture. Hollyhocks are long necked sisters. Daffodils are young girls running out of a white church, sun shining on their heads. Peonies are pink-haired ladies, so full and stooped you have to tie them up with string. And roses are nothing but (I hate to say it) bitches
pretty show-offs who'll draw blood if you don't handle them just right.
-Vangie Galliard Nepper, From her
"Garden Diary," March 1952 — Michael Lee West

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools. — Martin Luther

Spring me from this role I play of the smothered son in the Jewish joke! Because it's beginning to pall a little at thirty-three! — Philip Roth

You're being too nice about all this," she said. "You're right about that," he said, surprising her. "If you'd stop being so pitiful, I could drop the whole chivalry thing and stare at your tits. — Joey W. Hill

Congressmen had a use for their very own son of a bitch. — Rick Perlstein

It is interesting to me how technology has in many ways facilitated and refined the practice of deception — Suzanne Rindell

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness. — Og Mandino

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children. — Nadya Suleman

What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized. — Guillermo Gonzalez

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew. — Annie Baker

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written. — Kristin Cast

Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it. — Orson Scott Card