Gawping At Quotes & Sayings

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a know and hang on. — Theodore Roosevelt

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president. — Alan K. Simpson

just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America. — Ken Follett

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss. — Paulo Coelho

Then so be it. I'll go where you go no matter how dark the path. — Cora Reilly

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder. — Mike Quade

- he couldn't believe how falling love with Martha made things simpler. No, that wasn't the right word, unless 'simpler' also included the sense of richer, denser, more complicated, with focus and echo. Half his brain pulsed with gawping incredulity at his luck; the other half was filled with a sense of long-sought, flaming reality. That was the word: falling in love with Martha made things real. — Julian Barnes

Corey was hanging out down by the port one afternoon with Karl and Jacques when a bus-load of american tourists drove by, and in a moment of clarity Corey suddenly perceived Karl in the light of reality rather than through the kaleidoscope of fashion: the tourists were staring open-mouthed through the bus windows, ice creams held in mid-air, gawping at the apparition that was Karl. Jacques was driving the mobylette and Karl sat behind riding side-saddle dressed in hot pants, long strands of pearls and dark glasses; he was wielding a raw frankfurter straight from the packet in one hand and a bottle of coca-cola in the other. I remember thinking "I am with this total freak," says Corey. — Alicia Drake

Sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations. — Paul Theroux

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular. — Madeleine Vionnet

Love can take you to heaven or hell, but it will always take you somewhere. — Paulo Coelho

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the
capacity to listen. — Carolyn Baker

Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no idea that this was your only chance to explore for free, and instead you spent the five seconds of precious light gawping at the sky, stuffing treacle into your mouth. And then it went dark again. — Edward Docx

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. — Hugo Claus

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived. — Thomas Merton

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H.L. Mencken

Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale. — Alexander Masters