Grandcourt Quotes & Sayings

I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen," West said years later. "There's some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can't under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together. — Tracy Kidder

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. — Elizabeth Edwards

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits. — Helen Thomas

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she? — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. — Nicholas D. Kristof

I'm not really who i seem to be — Me

Look, if I were straight, you'd be grandparents before your time. You should be relieved that I'm gay. Aren't you grateful? — Hayden Thorne

You shall have whatever you like,' said Grandcourt.
'And nothing that I don't like? - please say that; because I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like,' said Gwendolen, finding herself in the woman's paradise where all her nonsense is adorable. — George Eliot

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it. — Anzia Yezierska

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial. — Claudia Schiffer