Gregors Quotes & Sayings

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own. — William Faulkner

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. — Maimonides

He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.) — Vladimir Nabokov

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right. — Sammy Davis Jr.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. — Joseph Brodsky

Maybe now and then if it's absolutely necessary to cushion someone from a world gone too harsh and bitter. — Robert James Waller