Gunners Mate Quotes & Sayings

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read. — Jack London

No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt. — Simone Weil

I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important ... But I think makeup and fashion should not be taken that seriously ... You should have fun making up for a party. You should have fun wearing a sexy dress. When you're beautiful it should give you pleasure. — Diane Von Furstenberg

A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you. — Carol Grace

Son, I hope your opinion of your mother hasn't lessened, knowing what you now know."
Gavin glanced up; incredulity skewed his eyebrows. His expression appeared both stunned and appalled. "Never, Father! I love her! It makes no difference to me where she came from."
The man nodded, a show of relief in his features. His large hand, soft in touch, went to brush a string of hair away from his wife's peaceful profile. "Your mother loves you too, son, more than anything in the world. She worries about you, day and night."
That sentiment stirred something profoundly pleasant inside the boy. He grinned at the internal warmth it created. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I think the chemistry on the Orange set is extraordinary and I'm going to risk and say this: I think by virtue of the fact that there are not so many men, we are free to be absolutely authentic. There is a lot of freedom and trust. — Kate Mulgrew

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. — A.E. Housman

[Vik] Okay, I'll drop the subject. But if you ever do that to me again, I'll stab you in the penis, which I'm sure will hurt."

[Syn] "Yeah, it would."

[Vik] "Good. Now I'm powering down for a bit to conserve my power. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were staring at. I wanted to
know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I
couldn't tell. I mean, I was just me.
Then one day, when I looked in the mirror, I understood. I looked into my own eyes and I hated
myself, maybe as much as all of them did.
That was the day I started to believe they might be right. — Jodi Picoult

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already. — Mike McCurry

In the extreme, fads can arise, spread through, and then disappear from a community in a fraction of a human generation. — Hal Whitehead

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey