Gerda Buch Quotes & Sayings

They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. — Karl French

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages. — Esther Williams

As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am. — Elizabeth Bowen

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. — Stephen Hawking

Elizabeth lifted her head and glared at him. "I don't want you to take me home. You're fired."
"So you told me. I'm taking you home anyway. You can fire me again when we get there."
"Okay." Her head dropped to his shoulder, and she was blissfully quiet on the ride home. — Jaci Burton

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others. — Henry Cloud

I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes. — Hillary Clinton