Gertrudes Quotes & Sayings

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. — Timothy Radcliffe

If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering ... then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing? — Carole Maso

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. — Harold Bloom

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. — Katherine Mansfield

Most people did think that way, unable to look beyond the letter of the rules or what they believed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine. — Maggie Q

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character. — Michael Zaslow

In the end, it is your responsibility to read the small print, whether it is for gig contracts, record contracts, investors, management, booking agents, or anything else. You can blame everyone else for your mistakes, but when you make them, you end up being the one who has to pay. — Loren Weisman

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life. — Alice Hegan Rice

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Unlike my dead lover, I refuse to/ choose the day I shock the world. There's no/ mystery left in suicide. The challenge is, my love,/ to keep yourself awake/ despite the sleeping pill doses of sickness and/ despair. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

Please be careful. Know that if something
happened to you, you wouldn't be the only one hurt. — Lani Woodland

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you. — Louie Giglio