Gawronski Conveyor Quotes & Sayings

Ellie tells me, often, some variation on this theme: that I am a little too invested in how I'm feeling about church and God, and perhaps not invested enough in how I am serving church, God, neighbor. — Lauren F. Winner

Tomorrow, Reader and Other Reader, if you are together, if you lie down in the same bed like a settled couple, each will turn on the lamp at the side of the bed and sink into his or her book; two parallel readings will accompany the approach of sleep; first you, then you will turn out the light; returning from separated universes, you will find each other fleetingly in the darkness, where all separations are erased, before divergent dreams draw you again, one to one side, and one to the other. But do not wax ironic on this prospect of conjugal harmony: what happier image of a couple could you set against it? — Italo Calvino

You got to remember, this is the United States. Practically ninety percent of your friends and neighbors are right-wing, fundamentalist, un-Christian, Nazi-bastard, racist dogs. No one sunk the Mayflower when we had the chance, and we are stuck with those attitudes. — Dan O'Neill

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is. — Walter Mosley

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource. — Eric S. Raymond

Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways. — Miranda July

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. — David Hockney

For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. — Victor Hugo

When, one otherwise ordinary day, she tentatively stepped back into the world, she left behind, deep within the walls of that ancient monastery, more than the simple white habit the Sisters had made for her. — Mary Ann D'Alto

Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time. — John Patrick Hickey

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility. — William Wordsworth

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it. — Alice Hoffman

A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of. — R.A. Dickey

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn. — Gautama Buddha

I think we are as screwed as a culture as we are saved as a culture. — Joel McHale