Gbf Tanner Quotes & Sayings

While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about Antonio Jones, who had been dead for several years now. As before, he asked himself what Jones could have died of, and the one answer that occurred to him was old age. One day, walking down some street in Brooklyn, Antonio Jones had felt tired, sat down on the sidewalk, and a second later stopped existing. — Roberto Bolano

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. — Kenneth Tynan

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. — Gabriel Marcel

It was all your imagination. And imagination is sometimes worse than reality ... — Banana Yoshimoto

It's really nice to meet you, sir. You drive like a wild maniac, and I respect that. — Daniel Jose Older

I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop. — Marianne Williamson

We are eternal beings, existing in time. — Shilpa Menon

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that ... Because it was not their fault. — Joe Strummer

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters
and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown. — Thomas Hood

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. — Eric Hoffer

Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive. — Debasish Mridha