Gutta Quotes & Sayings

Life has a sick sense of humour, and you're just another one of its victims! — L. Ladia

I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director. — Bun B.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time. — Daniel Barenboim

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it. — William Hurrell Mallock

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. — Leo Tolstoy

I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning. — Sgt. Slaughter

Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent languages.
"I hate you," she said to me one afternoon. Her English was flawless. "I really, really hate you." Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help taking it personally. — David Sedaris

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase. — Chevy Chase

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me the gun." Michael put a hand out, his voice soft.
Tension rode on the sunlight as she listened to Hunter's breathing shake.
"It's okay," said Michael. "You don't want to do this."
Inch by inch, Hunter lowered the gun into Michael's palm, finally letting go.
Michael didn't move. "You alright?"
Hunter nodded.
"Good." Michael wrapped his hand around the hilt.
Then he lifted it, cocked the hammer, and put the barrel against Hunter's forehead. "Now where the f*** are my brothers? — Brigid Kemmerer

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. — Khaled Hosseini

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. — Aldous Huxley