Gipp Quotes & Sayings

My father used to say some families are made by shared blood and some families are made by spilled blood — Lindsay Buroker

To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way. — Chloe Sevigny

The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice
Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam

Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole intellectual life. We may regard the chase for truth as paramount, and the avoidance of error as secondary; or we may, on the other hand, treat the avoidance of error as more imperative, and let truth take its chance. — William James

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. — Gautama Buddha

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in. — Alan Moore

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. — P. J. O'Rourke

These usually occur in competitors weekly flyers. For instance Safeway will often have a little cut out coupon for a product like I Can't Believe It's Not Butter 8oz tub for $1.99. Walmart will take that and you can use another coupon on top of that if there is one available. — Aarn Farmer

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is. — Paulo Coelho

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy. — Tommy Chong

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way. — Shahrukh Khan

Note to self: never cockblock a sex demon. — Alexis Hall

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. — Karen Horney

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous. — Wilhelm Stekel

Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy."
— Knute Rockne