Gow Baird Quotes & Sayings

It was remarkable, but every time he kissed her, her lips seemed to grow sweeter, her scent more beguiling. And his need grew, too. His blood was racing with desire, and it was taking his every last shred of restraint not to push her back onto the sofa and tear her clothes from her body.
That would come later, he thought with a secret smile. But this - surely her first time - would be slow and tender and everything a young girl dreamed.
Well, maybe not. His smile turned into an outright grin. Half the things he was going to do to her, she wouldn't have even thought to dream about. — Julia Quinn

She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetually done out of something better. — Anna Quindlen

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us
that's snatched right out of our hands
even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness. — Haruki Murakami

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. — Adam Duritz

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.' — Swami Vivekananda

In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superceded. — Frank Pakenham

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people. — Isabel Allende

I outlived the bastards. — Herbert Hoover

We live our lives between magic and panic. — Philip Ridley

Respect All! Worship Own! — Unknown

Out of what ... a thousand? — Mickey Rivers

I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates. — Gordon Gee