Gebert Emerson Quotes & Sayings

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. — Nina Bawden

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut. — Gayle Forman

Seeing the world that, as a child, he had once thought so unimaginably vast, nearly limitless in size, reduced to a tiny ball, floating there, swallowed by the immensity of the universe, reminded Milo of how small he was, how minute a single life was - just — A.G. Riddle

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but ... defeat with God is not defeat. — William Faulkner

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. — Peter Jackson

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose — Charles R. Swindoll

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. — Mia Wasikowska

But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people. — Sigrid Undset

It is not just boredom that propels my steps along paths unknown, but a firm belief that the guiding principle of life must be a search not for what is, but for what could be. — R.A. Salvatore

Then, after a long fireside rest and a glance at my note-book, I cut a few leafy branches for a bed, and fell into the clear, death-like sleep of the tired mountaineer. Early — John Muir

Laughter - just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes. — Mark Buchanan

Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it. — Phylicia Rashad

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. — Anthony Zinni