Gus Gould Quotes & Sayings

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined. — J.M. Coetzee

There were crinkles at the corners of his eyes, which were merry and asquint with unselfconscious happiness. The change was profound. If he was beautiful when grave-and he was-smiling, he was nothing short of glorious. — Laini Taylor

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love. — Daniel Handler

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? — Francesca Annis

We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy. — John Piper

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. — Michael Haneke

do not just take a risk ; take the risk. When you are taking the risk, ponder! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people ... . It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience. — Leonard Rose

No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored ... — Jean Helion

Fernando Torres' English seems to be coming on good — Andy Townsend

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources. — Eduard Shevardnadze

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. — Annie Dillard

When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him. — W. Edwards Deming

The UK office for National Statistics has identified the things that matter most for happiness as "health, relationships, work, and the environment" - a list that tallies closely with our basic goods. Given that our lives have not noticeably improved in these respects since 1974 it is hardly surprising that we do not feel any happier.
Are we then suggesting a return to living standards of 1974? Not necessarily, for the luxuries acquired since then may, even if they have added nothing to our real well-being, be painful to forgo. This is an instance of the general truth that damaging social changes cannot always be rectified simply by being reversed, any more than a man flattened by a steamroller can be restored to life by being run over backwards. What we are saying is that the long-term goal of economic policy should henceforth not be growth, but the restructuring of our collective existence so as to facilitate the good life. — Robert Skidelsky