Gilday Andrew Quotes & Sayings

I am always amazed, in myself and in other women, at the strength of our need to bolster men up. This is ironical, living as we do in a time of men's criticizing us for being 'castrating', etc., - all the other words and phrases of the same kind. (Nelson says his wife is 'castrating' - this makes me angry, thinking of the misery she must have lived through.) For the truth is, women have this deep instinctive need to build a man up as a man. Molly for instance. I suppose this is because real men become fewer and fewer, and we are frightened, trying to create men. — Doris Lessing

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. — Wislawa Szymborska

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. — Fiona Shaw

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. — Vincente Minnelli

Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that. — Lynne Tillman

And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. — David Korten

There will always be a moment to feel sorry for the mistakes, but indeed it is not today. — M.F. Moonzajer

I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne. — Carolyn Kizer

She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them. — Julie Anne Peters

Love continues to enhance and enrich my life. — Debasish Mridha

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different. — Gavriel David Rosenfeld

Existence is the premise for everything else. — Liu Cixin

Do you own anything not pink? (Talon)
I have a purple razor if you'd rather. (Sunshine)
Please. (Talon)
(She pulled out a darker pink one.)
That's not purple. It's pink too. (Talon)
Well, that's all I have unless you want my X-Acto blade. (Sunshine) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here. — Charles Dickens

Few living do."
"Then, have I...I mean, am I-"
"Oh, no, child! You are still very much alive! Though I may say, not as Alive as you might be if you had died. — R.W. Schmidt