Gavels Club Quotes & Sayings

Here is a warning: Not all things end up tied with a perfect bow. Sometimes the ribbon frays. Sometimes you get a knot. A very messy one. — Anonymous

Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism. — Dogen

The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire. — Matthew De Abaitua

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody

Starting is good. You can't get anywhere at all if you never start. — Patricia C. Wrede

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. — Fran Lebowitz

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to. — Kenneth Lonergan

Some twat with a Trot poster came up to me on the way in and yelled 'Butcher!' Traitor!' at me. I stopped and mustered as much visual contempt as I could, then assured him that if we win the general election then don't worry, thanks to wankers like him, there will always be another Tory government along afterwards. These people make me vomit. — Alastair Campbell