Gimbert Surgeles Quotes & Sayings

People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth. — Salman Rushdie

As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Samuel Johnson

After all, it's the things we hold against ourselves that weigh us down more than anything. — Kamal Ravikant

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. — John Ruskin

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side." Three wide smiles. "Oh shut up. — Kathy Reichs

He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness. — Maya Angelou

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other. — Walter Lippmann

Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. — Mark Twain

I want to do everything in the world that can be done. — Fanny Kemble

I got my heart's desire, he thought, and there my troubles began. — Lev Grossman

When I started my own business, I funded it as a naked model. I still think that the sex industry can, for some men and women, be a powerful tool for improving their financial prospects. — Molly Crabapple

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else. — Max Beerbohm