Gayford Standoffs Quotes & Sayings

I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same! — Manolo Blahnik

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship — John Paul Warren

They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you. — Fannie Flagg

Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor. — Steve Paxton

I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away
— Emily Dickinson

He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included. — Anthony Powell

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make. — Ally Condie

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read. — Khaled Hosseini

I do experience something pretty commonly with every song; there's some moment where it clicks into its own life with its own emotional impact that I feel, and even though technically I'm the one writing the song, it's like watching a storm come in. — Mirah

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again. — Christy Mathewson

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams. — Jerry West

That's the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you're alive - the backward ache. That's what music is. The trouble - for me - is that at some stage I realized those miracles, those aches, they have a history. They're not private. The music's always about what someone's lost. That's what you hear, when it's good: the worlds people lost, the ones they want back. And once you hear it that way, you can't avoid it - that it's somehow about justice. — Adam Haslett

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults. — Dick Van Dyke