Gently With Honour Quotes & Sayings

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate. — David Mumford

Perceval said to the Grail Knight: "Will you break a spear with me this day?"

He did not expect Galahad to look down on him from Lancelot's immense height and say, gently, as if he knew it must disappoint, "Sir, I cannot."

"No? Well, there are others to fight," said Perceval, trying not to show how vexed he felt to be denied the honour.

"Not for any lack of love," Galahad added. "But for the regard in which I hold you, Perceval of Wales. — Suzannah Rowntree

Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over.
William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so. — Gena Showalter

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm. — Oscar Hammerstein II

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect. — Tim Tebow

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. — Jim Fowler

It's no good thinking you're invisible if you aren't — Margaret Atwood

You meet someone and it's so much more than meeting them. It's so much bigger and it's like you're enchanted by them. — Taylor Swift

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. — Cliff Martinez

I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films. — Kevin Spacey

Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer - life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading. — Philip Roth

In its enervating plains, far removed from the invigorating sea-breeze and the bracing cold of the mountain ranges, the keen eye, undaunted heart, and relentless arm of the successive hardy northern immigrants slowly but surely tend to change to the placid look, folded hands and brooding mind of the Eastern Sage, who, content to dream his dream of life, wearily turns from the conflict and dire struggle for existence, — R.W. Frazer

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love ... — Saint Augustine

One way, our way policy. — Alex Adams

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible.6 — Lysander Spooner

I do Pilates, and hike with my dog. — Kate Walsh

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt