Gjysma Quotes & Sayings

Dreams can lie, your Grace. — George R R Martin

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us. — Paul Tillich

There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter. — Roberto Bolano

All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating. — Michael Paterniti

Your penis betrayed you, son. Made you think stupid. It won't be the last time that happens. — Justin Halpern

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights. — Theodore William Richards

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots ... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster. — Tony Verna

It takes two races to mongrelize a race - if that's the right word - and when we white people holler about mongrelizin', isn't that something of a reflection on ourselves as a race? — Harper Lee

I do not like to be unkind. — David Rockefeller

As a yogi, you are an environmentalist because you recognize that the rivers flowing through the valleys and those flowing through your veins are intimately related. The breath of an old-growth forest and your most recent breath are inextricably intertwined. The quality of the soil in which your food is raised is directly connected to the health of your tissues and organs. Your environment is your extended body. You are inseparably interwoven with your ecosystem. — Anonymous

There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly. — Andrew Wyatt

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition. — Andrey Zvyagintsev

My memory of the event stops at this point, like a scene that is held in the eye in the moments after a lamp is turned out. I can recall the burnished surface of the river flowing by, the rotations of birdsong from the trees behind us, and the imprint of my father's fingers on my forehead where he had brushed away my hair. But of my father I remember nothing save an impression of his lean body, perched on a rock, in white featureless silhouette as if his image had been carefully cut from a photograph. the image stays with me still.
"Do you understand?" the silhouette says.
I nod and say nothing. (pg 43) — John Sinclair

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson