Gundolf Keil Quotes & Sayings

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility. — P.D. James

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes. — Kate Upton

Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked. — John Clellon Holmes

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk. — Sara Sheridan

Teaching was never a vocation for me. Certainly I never aspired to teach people how to live. I was what used to be called a scholar. I wrote books about dead people. That was where my heart was. I taught only to make a living. — J.M. Coetzee

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated. — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey