Gunky Mane Quotes & Sayings

How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form. — Selim Nurudeen

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry — Bob Dylan

I began to ponder; this life we had for ourselves, Eric and I, it felt like the opposite of Potage Parmentier. It was easy enough to keep on with the soul-sucking jobs; at least it saved having to make a choice. But how much longer could I take such an easy life? Quicksand was easy. Hell, death was easy. Maybe that's why my synapses had started snapping at the sight of potatoes and leeks in the Korean deli. Maybe that was what was plucking deep down in my belly whenever I thought of Julia Child's book. Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be a part of something that was not easy, just simple. — Julie Powell

But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false. — Leo Tolstoy

The Night's Watch permitted the forest to come no closer than half a mile of the north face of the Wall. The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen. — George R R Martin