Gewilde Quotes & Sayings

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. — Ann Marie Aguilar

Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die. — John Saul

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
I lie in bed beside my little sister, listening to the singing in the yard. Life is transformed, by these voices, by these presences, by their high spirits and grand esteem, for themselves and each other. My parents, all of us, are on holiday. The mixture of voices and words is so complicated and varied it seems that such confusion, such jolly rivalry, will go on forever, and then to my surprise - for I am surprised, even though I know the pattern of rounds - the song is thinning out, you can hear the two voices striving.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Then the one voice alone, one of them singing on, gamely, to the finish. One voice in which there is an unexpected note of entreaty, of warning, as it hangs the five separate words on the air. Life is. Wait. But a. Now, wait. Dream. — Alice Munro

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. — Ogden Nash

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table. — David Hilbert

I look down at the city again. From here the city resembles a severed head, incinerated and discarded by the side of the river; its cavernous eye sockets are empty, bundles of dead nerves dangle from its neck, its shattered mouth gapes, a few desolate wires hang from its stark, scorched skull and, suddenly and incomprehensibly and so foreign to my body I could weep, I feel my heart expand with what I can only describe as a sensation of hope. Is there a word for that? Hope in the face of grand calamity. — Nick Cave

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you. — John Vianney

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card

It's not how you compensate your executives, it's which executives you have to compensate in the first place. If — James C. Collins

To most of society being crazy is like a virus. If we're out and about in public people think they can catch the craziness from us or something. It's much easier for them to separate us and forget we ever existed. Almost like being quarantined. I used to see a psychiatrist before I was brought here. I remember the way my mother's friends used to gossip about it. They wouldn't let me play with their children. It's kind of like women who are divorced nowadays. Other women don't talk to them. They're usually shunned."
A dull ache throbs in my side and I clench my fists.
"It's like we're tossed out trash." Aurora smiles. "That's a great analogy, Adelaide. — Lauren Hammond

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations. — John Wells

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position. — Shirley Booth

Love Is How You How You Dress — Maurys Gaucho