Gealed Quotes & Sayings

In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. — G.K. Chesterton

Held on to me like I was a baby. And she kept crying. So many tears. My clothes and hair were soaked with her tears. It was, like, my mother had given me a grief shower, you know? Like she'd baptized me with her pain. — Sherman Alexie

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. — Enoch Powell

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork. — Nate Lowman

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been. — Lewis Carroll

Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death — Henri Barbusse

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. — Henry David Thoreau

Hollywood culture is a universal culture now. Everyone wants to step out of life and into the flat perfections of a movie screen. My own wish to drown was not so different from the desire those girls had to leave their real lives behind, to recieve new names and wardrobes and perfectly scripted lines. — Jonathan Rosen

Finn says, "No, ma'am," as he enters the shop, where he gets poked directly in the chest by the fertility goddess. I move a step backward so he can get away because the last thing I need is for Finn to suddenly decide to become fertile. — Maggie Stiefvater

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. — Elia Kazan

In fact, during his life on earth, there were parts of God the Father's plan that Jesus himself did not know (Mark 13:32). As for us, God tells us what we need to know and instructs us to get on with living in light of what he does tell. — Christian Smith

I take his gold. I'm hated for that by men who would grovel for it, were it offered to them. Myt-ser — Gene Wolfe