Grinling Gibons Quotes & Sayings

Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that. — Melissa McCarthy

I am careful
with whom I spend my time.
I surround myself only
with those who encourage
and uplift me. — Human Angels

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity. — Jim Harrison

She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she'd been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thoughts "the baby teeth of a snake," and swore he would rip them out of her, and pledged to prove to her that the opposite was true. And he didn't even have to explain to her what he meant by "the opposite"; she knew it was the opposite of her. — David Grossman

When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they had long beams like wings ... — Katherine Mansfield

Um, I guess."
Brilliant. Sparkling conversation. — Inara Scott

Unlike some of the Arabs of antiquity who learned to make a living as farmers or merchants, the mark of manhood for the Arab nomads who followed Muhammad was the possession of arms, obsession with honor, and claim to pastures, camels, and women. Robbery and murder outside the protective confines of one's clan were simply the means to an end." 125 It was upon the ethos of the ruthless raid that Muhammad founded Islam. — Larry Kelley

I wasn't going to be the victim. I was going to be a survivor. And I would never let anyone get in the way of my happiness ever again. — M. Clarke

He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter. — Nathanael West

Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road. — Geezer Butler

Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective. — Patti Davis

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right. — Holly Lisle

Rocco loving them both so much that he knew he'd never tell a soul about this moment, just take it to bed with him every night for years, like a miser's secret stash of gold. — Richard Price

You're pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?"
Clive smiled. "I don't know, should I?"
Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man's desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I've always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water. — Ted Dekker