Gramscian Quotes & Sayings

It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries. — Gillian Flynn

You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers. — J.R.R. Tolkien

--Writing Mystery and Macabre-- — David Pyle

They were complicated years. The order of the world in which we had grown up was dissolving. The old skills resulting from long study and knowledge of the correct political line suddenly seemed senseless. Anarchist, Marxist, Gramscian, Communist, Leninist, Trotskyite, Maoist, worker were quickly becoming obsolete labels or, worse, a mark of brutality. The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere. Meanwhile, by means legal and illegal, all the accounts that remained open in the state and in the revolutionary organizations were being closed with a heavy hand. One might easily end up murdered or in jail, and among the common people a stampede had begun. — Elena Ferrante

You cannot buy trust at any price. But slowly, over time, you can build it for free. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Where Thou art - that - is Home. — Emily Dickinson

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts. — John Woo

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director. — Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace. — George W. Bush

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you
almost apart from their meaning
a thrill like music? — C.S. Lewis

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever? — Jodi Picoult

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. — John Milton

I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings. — Andie MacDowell

It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns — Molly O'Neill