Gissur Thorvaldsson Quotes & Sayings

Feelings come in packs, D. Let one loose and they all want to run together. — Jane Seville

What's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow. I'm not sure if I'm mad or sane. I mean, I hold my life together, I pay my bills, I raise my kids. But the world is so polarized and bizarre now that for some people, none of these these things matter if they're not wearing the right shoes or don't have the right credit score or a fancy family car. Some people think the most important things to worry about are handbags and tan lines. Meanwhile, war and crime and poverty unfold all around us, and we ignore it. In that environment, how can we even begin to talk about sanity and madness? — A.S. King

The people in the city seem paper thin in the mist. They believe they are dancing to the music of their lives ... But I think, like the puppets, each of us is pulled upon invisible strings, until the night comes and we are put away. I shiver, and hurry from the square, as the darkness of the city closes over me like canal water or the grave. — Neil Gaiman

Ahh . . . him I don't like. — Molly McAdams

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing. — Ben Katchor

In an old war, everybody has an ax to grind. — Arundhati Roy

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred. — Scott Adams

A bookworm-one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries. He has no inward fountain of ideas ... " - "Earth's Holocaust", Hawthorne — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place it. I don't really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it's kind of nice to not be all that well known. — David Alan Basche

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants. — Heidi Julavits

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.' — Ciaran Hinds

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. — Matthew Simpson

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it. — Joseph Prince

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.
My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. — Orson Scott Card