Gus Griswald Quotes & Sayings

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age. — Widad Akreyi

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then. — Pat Morita

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it. — Billy Graham

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth. — Henry Dumas

True love perceives no impossibilities. — Debasish Mridha

Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole. — William S. Burroughs

On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook, placing it next to my laptop. The message was clear: we are still here. — Luke Harding

Mason prefers to switch over to Tea, when it is Dixon's turn to begin shaking his head. "Can't understand how anyone abides that stuff." "How so?" Mason unable not to react. "Well, it's disgusting, isn't it? Half-rotted Leaves, scalded with boiling Water and then left to lie, and soak, and bloat?" "Disgusting? this is Tea, Friend, Cha, - what all tasteful London drinks, - that," pollicating the Coffee-Pot, "is what's disgusting." "Au contraire," Dixon replies, "Coffee is an art, where precision is all, - Water-Temperature, mean particle diameter, ratio of Coffee to Water or as we say, CTW, and dozens more Variables I'd mention, were they not so clearly out of thy technical Grasp, - — Thomas Pynchon

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry. — Susannah Grant

Making such leaps (into the dark) requires us to be brave and determined, but doing so may also freeze other possibilities. It is easier to renounce bravery, rather than be brave over and over. It could not, in her case, be done again. The will and the nerve needed for such actions do not come to us often, any of us, least of all Isabel Archer from Albany. — Colm Toibin

Oh, baby girl," he says with a sigh. "I am so, so sorry. — Laura Wiess