Gervensky Quotes & Sayings

This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen. — Tim Maleeny

Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats? — L.M. Montgomery

I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal. — Peter Sis

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty. — Eduardo Galeano

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. — Willie Stargell

Grace turns pennies into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and needs into abundance. — Anonymous

I'm not a sociopath or a freak (although I don't suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just don't enjoy being with people. People, at least in my experience, rarely say anything interesting to each other. They always talk about their lives and they don't have very interesting lives. So I get impatient. For some reason I think you should only say something if it's interesting or absolutely has to be said. — Peter Cameron

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. — Winston Churchill

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that. — Amber Tamblyn

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives. — Charles Kennedy

What we call birth
Is but a beginning to be something else
Than what we were before; and when we cease
To be that something, then we call it death. — Ovid

Various internal and external factors can contribute to uncontrollable inflation. — Miller K.