Gitta Quotes & Sayings

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1. — John Avlon

I'm a more mature actress now. — Eliza Dushku

- Books or people?
- It makes no difference. Just be sure that they are wonderers. — Gitta Mallasz

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves. — Bobby Seale

Social isolation. Some people lack the feeling of belonging to others. They feel isolated, as if they were cut off from the rest of the world. The — Gitta Jacob

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It's not something to be approached casually. — Deborah Eisenberg

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. — Martha Gellhorn

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now. — Arthur Ashe

Life is your greatest asset. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tuesday? But at eight, 10, 12, you don't realise you're going to die. There is always the possibility of escape. There is always somewhere else and far away, a fact I had never really appreciated until I read Gitta Sereny's profoundly unsettling Cries Unheard about child-killer Mary Bell.
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We begin to picture a time when there will no longer be somewhere else and far away. We have jobs, children, partners, debts, responsibilities. And if many of these things enrich our lives immeasurably, those shrinking limits are something we all have to come to terms with.
This, I think, is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. — Mark Haddon

there's so much out there to hate, why would you go out of your way to hate something you love? — Jason Hartley

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only. — Louis Sachar

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. — Bernard Baruch

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth. — Romola Garai

If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left. — Gitta Sereny

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels. — Kenneth Patchen

Man, this angel crap ... it's so fucking hard to influence anything. I've never had a problem with free will before, but for shit's sake, I wish I could just I Dream of Jeannie you to where you need to be." As Tohr winced, the angel muttered, "It's okay, though. We'll get you there somehow - "
"Actually, I'm cringing at the vision of you in a pink harem costume."
"Hey, I have a great ass, I'll have you know. — J.R. Ward