Gurning Championships Quotes & Sayings

here's the crowning, the glory, the head, purple and smeared with yoghurt, another push and it slithers out, slick with fluid and blood, into our waiting. Oh — Margaret Atwood

What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro — Beth Yarnall

She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that. — John Prescott

Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet? — James Anthony Froude

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity. — Gottfried Leibniz

How soon do you want to move in?" "As soon as possible after school is out. In about six or seven weeks." "Are you a teacher too?" AJ asked. Shelby shook her head. "I have a first grader. And a three-year-old." "You're married?" As AJ's brown eyes flitted to her left hand, she self-consciously folded it into her waist. It'd been over a year since Gary's death, but she still wore her wedding band. More for her daughters' sakes than her own. "I was. — Johnnie Alexander

An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination. — Anne Rice

But everybody still walked in eggshells around the two of them, trying not pick sides, though loyalties were inevitably divided. — C.J. Daugherty

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine. — Emanuel Swedenborg

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in. — Hugo Weaving

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence. — Elizabeth Bowen

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me. — Po Bronson

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.
Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it. — Mark R. Trost

The casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was a violent instinctive response. For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond. — Walter Lippmann