Gorkin Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again. — Marilou

I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there was so much to know. — M.B. Julien

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade' — David Ansen

What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know. — Elizabeth Harrower

We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew. — Bill Whittle

To have died once is enough. — Virgil

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. — Robert M. Hutchins

Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance or impressing the other, or if you are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or if you are debating about whether the word being spoken is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters may have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening, in other words, is a primitive act of love, in which a person gives self to another's word, making self accessible and vulnerable to that word. — William Stringfellow

We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities. — Beyonce Knowles

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population. — John Sculley

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it. — Galen Rowell

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. — George Bernard Shaw