Geyer Quotes & Sayings

The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are. — Georgie Anne Geyer

Strange things began to happen that made Holmes's claims about being the devil seem almost plausible. Detective Geyer became seriously ill. The warden of Moyamensing prison committed suicide. The jury foreman was electrocuted in a freak accident. The priest who delivered Holmes's last rites was found dead on the grounds of his church of mysterious causes. The father of Emeline Cigrand was grotesquely burned in a boiler explosion. And a fire destroyed the office of District Attorney George Graham, leaving only a photograph of Holmes unscathed. — Erik Larson

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career. — Dean Geyer

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me. — Dean Geyer

And as we lingered in our intimate embrace, I knew that if I could freeze time right this second, I would. — Courtney Cole

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music. — Dean Geyer

Over the years, I've had a few roles where I've had to take my shirt off. I've kind of been the 'shirt-off' guy. — Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres. — Dean Geyer

I've always played nice guys, so I'd love to be someone that creates a bit of confrontation. I know that sounds bad, but as an actor, I want to explore different things. — Dean Geyer

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity. — Georgie Anne Geyer

An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims. — Georgie Anne Geyer

A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. "I didn't. I have other business in town and I told my friend I would attend to the matter of his son, as he could not do so himself."
"Very kind of you."
"Yes. I have been looking forward to it for quite some time."
Daddy's lemonade is almost gone, he sips it carefully, turning his eyes back to the water. "Looking forward to seeing the lad or to conducting your business?" Daddy is toying with him.
"Both. You see, I had never actually met his son." The glass rests against Daddy's lips, unmoving. Mr. Geyer watches him closely. "But now I have, so I can get on with my," he fixes his own gaze on the water, as though trying to see whatever it is that has transfixed my father, "business. — Gwenn Wright

Follow what you love! ... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change. — Georgie Anne Geyer

I make paper dolls with deep personal issues. — Polly M. Law

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared. — Georgie Anne Geyer

People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears. — Gustave Geyer

(...) there is no truth except truth in relation, and heavenly relation is composed of wheels in motion, tilting axes, turning dials; it is a clockwork orchestration that alters every minute, never repeating, never still. — Eleanor Catton

The more revolutions occur, the less things change. — Georgie Anne Geyer

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life. — Georgie Anne Geyer

Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of. — Lana Turner

I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice. — Dean Geyer

I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable. — Rachel Bilson

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest. — Georgie Anne Geyer

It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. — Georgie Anne Geyer

At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her. The same thing happened almost every day. Some days they came so close all she could smell was the rain. The wind whipped up dust from the fields until it drove like buckshot into the shuddering mesquites, and Clara Nell started to pray. 'Jesus,' she whispered. 'Jesus, Jesus....' But the only thing that came out of the sky was her topsoil. Every day the wind took a little more, and it hadn't rained in almost a year. — Andrew Geyer