Gumbels Lumber Quotes & Sayings

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis. — Lance Armstrong

If I'm walking down an American street and anyone darker than a peanut shell approaches, I'll say, "Hello." This because, if I don't say it, he or she might think that I'm anxious. Which, of course, I must be, otherwise I'd walk by in silence, just as I do with my fellow Caucasians.
Does this make me racist, or simply race conscious? Either way, I'm more afraid of conservatives than I am of black people. — David Sedaris

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — Neil Gaiman

I hang here like Hallaj, feeling those lips
on me, the honor of being lifted up
on a crucifixion apple tree.

Now the kissing is over.
Fold your love in.
Hide it like pastry filling.

Whisper within with
a shy girl's tenderness — Jalaluddin Rumi

Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice. — Stephen King

In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it. — Fergie

you are going to find out the facts of a thing, what's the sense in guessing out what ain't the facts and wasting ammunition? — Mark Twain

instead of becoming a strong and ardent and generous Catholic, I simply slipped into the ranks of the millions of tepid and dull and sluggish and indifferent Christians who live a life that is still half animal, and who barely put up a struggle to keep the breath of grace alive in their souls. — Thomas Merton

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history. — Pirjo Honkasalo

I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them. — Kurt Vonnegut

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time
Is England. England! — Alexander Smith

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with. — Famke Janssen

"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?" — Charles Dickens

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays — Francis Bacon

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting. — Bruce Lee