Gulbinas Quotes & Sayings

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. — Lawrence Durrell

The dead are gone and so their power over the living is only temporary. You lose sleep, you lose appetite, but eventually you fall asleep and eventually you eat - you may hate yourself for it, but the body's demands are incontrovertible. He had always felt guilt about that, that he went on living... p 115 — Anthony Doerr

When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother. — Rick Moranis

Liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion — Thomas Hobbes

There was a sense that things - words, feelings, laughs - were forever brawling inside her to be the first one out. Now, beside me, I sensed... emptiness. Emptiness in such a person is not nothing, is not small. It is enormous." -Cammie — Jerry Spinelli

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it! — Ruskin Bond

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing. — David Beckham

Know, that so far to distrust' the judgement and the honesty of one who hath but a common repute in Learning and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner lest he should drop a schism or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him. — John Milton

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers. — Nelson DeMille

He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity. — Budd Schulberg

I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants. — Ronda Rousey

If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress
if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill. — Charles Caleb Colton

To follow precisely the lead of others or advice from a book is self-defeating — Robert Greene

Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think. — Timothy Pina

In terms of business mistakes that I've seen over a long lifetime, I would say that trying to minimize taxes too much is one of the great standard causes of really dumb mistakes. I see terrible mistakes from people being overly motivated by tax considerations. Warren and I personally don't drill oil wells. We pay our taxes. And we've done pretty well, so far. Anytime somebody offers you a tax shelter from here on in life, my advice would be don't buy it. — Charlie Munger