Guinan And Q Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing more dangerous to group cohesion than a manager who feels threatened. — Anonymous

Success has killed more men than bullets. — Texas Guinan

Feuds are forgiven, if not forgotten, in the hour of death

("The Watcher O' The Dead") — John Guinan

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far. — Texas Guinan

Because you're not thinking about existence and being, you're not really thinking at all. — Michael Tsarion

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock

Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world. — Texas Guinan

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges

How stubborn life is,
It clings like silver in our souls. — Scott Hastie

The ride had begun.
The theatre and club spectaculars seemed to stick up into the sky at all sorts of crazy angles, probably because most of them were planted diagonally on rooftops. Follow Thru, Whoopee, Show Boat, El Fay Club, Club Richman, Texas Guinan's. It gave the town the appearance of standing on its ear. ("The Number's Up") — Cornell Woolrich

The simplest is always the most difficult. — Masaaki Hatsumi

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility. — Paul Keating

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring. — Stella Adler

Does a special love withstand the test of time? Like the grass that overcomes a 500lb slab of sidewalk concrete or the proverbial flower that shatters the stone, can Christ overcome the barriers and deep darkness of mortal moments? — Rob Guinan

I follow Plato only with my mind
Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin
A little cold, however beautiful.
I am in love with what is mixed and impure
Doubtful, dark and hard to disencumber
I want beauty I must dig for, search for.
Pure beauty is beginning and not end
Begin with the sun and drop from sun to cloud
From cloud to tree, and from tree to earth itself
And deeper yet to the earth dark root.
I am in love with what resists my loving
With what I have to labor to make live. — Robert Francis

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky. — Texas Guinan

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. — Walter Savage Landor

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. — Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan

every man has his own story, his own agony

("The Watcher O' The Dead") — John Guinan

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave. — Texas Guinan

Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys. — Brian Sutton-Smith

There is no man but carries in his breast the makings of a story, which, though never told, comes more home to him, than any the mind of another man can find and fashion in words

("The Watcher O' The Dead") — John Guinan

When we are young, we can put up with a great deal of discomfort in order to follow a dream. If, after thirty-five years, I'm still doing my own thing, it's because I haven't forgotten the dream. Let no man take your dream away. It will sustain you to the end. — Ruskin Bond

I love you for your courage and your honestly. I love you for seeing things in me that aren't there. — Heather Sunseri

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards. — Texas Guinan

My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time. — Jack Huston