Gaudish Quotes & Sayings

There are no boundaries-only possibilities — Sakyong Mipham

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink — Ben Jonson

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels. — Heidi Julavits

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. — Hesiod

The Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless
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'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'
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Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over. — Neal Shusterman

She smiled and sipped from her glass. There was altogether too much of her sitting there, the broad expanse of thigh cradled in the insubstantial stocking and the garters with the pale flesh pursed and her full breasts and the sootblack piping of her eyelids, a gaudish rake of metaldust in prussian blue where cerulean moths fluttered her awake from some outlandish dream. Suttree gradually going awash in the sheer outrageous sentience of her. Their glasses clicked on the tabletop. Her hot spiced tongue fat in his mouth and her hands all over him like the very witch of fuck. — Cormac McCarthy

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people. — John Lennon

It is not difficult to pretend that Jesus never lived. The attempt to prove it, however, invariably produces the opposite conclusion. In the Jewish literature of the first century the existence of Jesus is not attested to with any certainty, and in the Greek and Latin literature of the same period there is no evidence for it at all. Of the two passages in his Antiquities in which the Jewish writer Josephus makes incidental mention of Jesus, one was undoubtedly interpolated by Christian copyists. The first pagan witness to His existence is Tacitus, who, during the reign of Trajan in the second decade of the second century A.D., reports in his Annals (XV.44) that the founder of the "Christian" sect (which Nero accused of causing the great fire at Rome) was executed under the government of Tiberius by the procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate. Since — Albert Schweitzer

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to. — Tom Glavine

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery. — Lily Allen

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word. — Chuck Berry

HOW DID WE wind up in a world where the only choices for the very old seem to be either going down with the volcano or yielding all control over our lives? — Atul Gawande