Gonnevilles Quotes & Sayings

All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind - the culture - has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives. — Annie Dillard

That's," I say. My words are all tangled up. "That's. Insane. You're insane."
"I prefer the term brilliant. — Eva Morgan

I just feel exciting. — Li Na

While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of the ocean. — Victor Hugo

It all started with a girl," I said. — Cambria Hebert

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it. — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves — Lolly Daskal

Authors ... keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less depressed than those who don't. — Timothy Pina