Gunga Quotes & Sayings

Let us not overlook so great a gain. — Saint John Chrysostom

Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly." #ElenaFerrante — Angela Paolantonio

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect. — Mariska Hargitay

I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din. — Will Rogers

We speak with one voice," Walt said. "Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane. — Rick Riordan

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back. — Aasif Mandvi

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral. — Andy Rooney

Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ... May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ... therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing. — John Ashcroft

And so, what of it all? What of me and my passions and personas, my great loves and failures of love, my writing, my politics? What of the clanging opinions, the endless queries as to the whys and wherefores of how I chose to conduct myself? In the end, there is but one answer to every question, whether it is spit at me or made as gentlest inquiry: I was I. — Elizabeth Berg

In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers. — Philip French

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something. — Esther Freud

I would never make you drop something you love. I'd never drop what I love - for anybody. I'd make room for the other thing I love, though. I made room for you." ~Gage — Shanora Williams

Sorabji's hair was long and matted, as was his beard. He'd spent six months in a tropical sun, and was now dark brown. His clothes had been disgusting after the first week; following local custom he had taken to wearing his shirt as a loincloth. Sorabji always liked to say that the unfortunate consul had travelled hundreds of miles into the interior to rescue a British citizen, only to find Gunga Din. It was true that the loincloth had come from Gieves & Hawkes, but this was not something you'd notice on a casual inspection. — Helen DeWitt

Laire, get back here! You do not drink before we meet with our mortal enemy. — Danielle Monsch