Genthe Quotes & Sayings

The temptation to take the next step hung in the air around them ... it was the apple: take one bite, and there was no going back. — Carol Oates

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. — Roger Bacon

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. — Charles A. Lindbergh

Memories are like putty. We make of them what we will. — Marty Rubin

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad. — R.D. Laing

Then two identical Cadillac Fleetwoods (special Secret Service cars flown in from the US) and the President sitting in one of them. Which one was kept secret. Or perhaps he was sitting in both, Harry thought. One for Jekyll and one for Hyde. — Jo Nesbo

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. — Bruce Johnston

The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning. — Jim Gaffigan

a liberated man, and what I do has nothing to do with anybody but me and my whore of a mother. She has to pay." "I thought that your parents lived down south, Hugh?" "You were meant to. I watched my father die under a tractor, and spat on his dead face. Later, I fixed my mother and — Michael Kerr

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. — Joseph Joubert

Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married. — Timothy Egan

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else? — Neil Peart

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson