Gorlag Quotes & Sayings

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood. — Richard Dawkins

I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me. — Tahar Rahim

I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded. — Hans-Peter Lindstrom

A young girl must have her lover in all courses of the sun and moon. — J.M. Synge

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. — Michel De Montaigne

It is always fragile, being a parent. — Renee Fleming

I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen. — Milton Babbitt

Yorri was never mine, and Tessen will never be mine, because all we can ever be is our own. — Erica Cameron

She wondered why things always took longer than you wanted them to take, unless you wanted them to take a lot longer - then they didn't take nearly long enough. Time sucked. — J.D. Robb

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

He is mad.
I am mad too, with an inward curtain-like madness. A pall.
There is no illumination. — Elizabeth Smart

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. — St. Jerome

Above all there's a lack of personal discipline, manners, decorum, natural discretion. If everyone causes their own individual catastrophes, how can there fail to be more general catastrophes? After all, the passengers on a bus or streetcar make up a community of a kind. But they don't see it that way, not even in a moment of danger. As they see it they are bound always to be the other's enemy: for political, social, all sorts of reasons. Where so much hate has been bottled up, it is vented on inanimate things, and provokes the celebrated perversity of inanimate things. Sending experts into other countries won't help much, so long as each individual refuses to work out his own personal traffic plan. There is a wisdom in the accident of language by which there is a single word, "traffic," for movement in the streets, and for people's dealings with one another. — Joseph Roth

If the worst sin of all was betraying others, then what about people who lied to themselves? — Jodi Picoult