Guillebeau House Quotes & Sayings

There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes. — Gilbert Adair

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. — Pythagoras

Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. — George Herbert

I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself. — Larry David

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something. — Andy Stanley

The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability. — Timothy Keller

I just love dialects; they're really fun. — Cory Michael Smith

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications. — Dave McClure

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft. — Angela Lansbury

I never get tired of people telling me how important their job is as an excuse for screwing it up. — Christopher Farnsworth

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so. — Franz Kafka

To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. — Edgar Allan Poe

The Luxembourg is within five minutes' walk of the rue Notre Dame des Champs, and there he sat under the shadow of a winged god, and there he had sat for an hour, poking holes in the dust and watching the steps which lead from the northern terrace to the fountain. The sun hung, a purple globe, above the misty hills of Meudon. Long streamers of clouds touched with rose swept low on the western sky, and the dome of the distant Invalides burned like an opal through the haze. Behind the Palace the smoke from a high chimney mounted straight into the air, purple until it crossed the sun, where it changed to a bar of smouldering fire. High above the darkening foliage of the chestnuts the twin towers of St. Sulpice rose, an ever-deepening silhouette. — Robert W. Chambers

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros ... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing. — Mel Gibson