Gehlbach Quotes & Sayings

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. — Jim Bishop

A rocker rose like Poseidon and flexed his knuckles. — David Mitchell

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity. — Eric S. Raymond

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel? — Antonio Munoz Molina

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself. — Edward Hirsch

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. — Goldwin Smith

It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. — Domenico Cieri

He was, as I'd expected, sitting on the most precarious slope of the roof, knees drawn up, arms around them, his expression unreadable as he gazed out over the stonewalled pastures, the barns and byres and cottages, to the smoke gray and velvet green and misty blue of the forest. Not so far away the waters of the lake glinted silver. The breeze was quite chill, catching at my skirts as I came up the slates and settled myself down next to him. Finbar was utterly still. I did not need to look at him to read his mood, for I was tuned to this brother's mind like the bow to the string. — Juliet Marillier

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening. — Charles Bukowski

I have a crush on Freja Beha. — Suki Waterhouse

Human computers had no future, he saw: — James Gleick

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong. — Aaron Carter

There's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want. — Isaac Marion

Darkness is not a symbol of negativity but the state, where we can concentrate on the real light of Life — Samar Sudha