Gildas On The Wharf Quotes & Sayings

All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have as it were been assigned those roles ... so that they ... can play their youthful-energetic, all but immutable selves. — John Barth

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing. — John Engler

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. — Alexander Pope

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such. — Mark Twain

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward

I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life. — David Beckham

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress. — Kirsten Dunst