Gruss Vom Quotes & Sayings

You'd think we're never going to die, the way we cower and second-guess and fret over each little action. — Johnny B. Truant

I have flown the distance of your body from side to side of your ivory coast. I know the forests where I can rest and feed. I have mapped you with my naked eye and stored you out of sight.
The millions of cells that make up your tissues are plotted on my retina. Night flying I know exactly where I am. Your body is my landing strip. — Jeanette Winterson

They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man,' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we? — Gillian Bronte Adams

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary. It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place, when the truth no longer appears to us as an ideal which we can realize only by the intimate progress of our own thought and the efforts of our heart, but as something material, deposited between the leaves of books like a honey fully prepared by others and which we need only take the trouble to reach down from the shelves of libraries and then sample passively in a perfect repose of mind and body. — Marcel Proust

No one ever owns a cat ... you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects ... although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal. — Lilian Jackson Braun

You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out. — Diana Abu-Jaber

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. — Dan Aykroyd

There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. Paris was always worth it, and you received return for whatever you brought to it ... — Ernest Hemingway,

One Child's courage to survive — Dave Pelzer

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort. — Julian Schnabel