Gawed Quotes & Sayings

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such
and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing. — Eliphas Levi

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us. — Rachel Corrie

I was relatively buff (before 'Avatar'), because I was working in a tanktop half the time on stage, anyway, but I just went kind of into hyperdrive after that and really worked to beat that old body into shape, to get that carcass where ... I didn't want to be looking at it and see anything hanging where it shouldn't be hanging. — Stephen Lang

If this were simply a story about the past, it would be appropriate to write, at the conclusion of Acts 28 as at the conclusion of a film, "The End." But since the story is unfinished, it is more appropriate to conclude it with, "RSVP," like an invitation that awaits a response. This is what Luke demands from us: not satisfied curiosity about the past, but a response here and now. RSVP! — Justo L. Gonzalez

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. — Marilyn Vos Savant

That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. — Ellen Hopkins

You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times. — Chris Tucker

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson

One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place ... By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site. — Marc Benioff

Oh, London is a fine town,
A very famous city,
Where all the streets are paved with gold,
And all the maidens pretty,
--G. Colman (the Younger) — Mark Williams

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in. — Philip Larkin