Gardedis Quotes & Sayings

Step One: Grab Mattie. Step Two: Run. It wasn't much of a plan. But what it lacked in potential it made up for in simplicity. — Ted Rabinowitz

None of that means my family's not spiritual. (Though what happened to Marvin has put me at odds with God these days.) To their credit, our parents have spent considerable time discussing the difference between Faith - the abiding belief in a Divine Creator that's as plain a part of a hundred-year-old oak tree, or a fiery red sunset, as the nose on your face - and Religion - which is the rigamarole that makes some folks figure they've got a leg up on everybody else. — Susan Carol McCarthy

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy. — Thaksin Shinawatra

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on. — Lewis Black

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. — Michel Foucault

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing. — Ken Burns

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor. — Willa Cather

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph. — Kenneth Clark