Gwendolyn Doyle Quotes & Sayings

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations — Jonathan Tropper

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back. — Hanif Kureishi

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Fraud in the insurance industry is calculated to be $100 billion to $300 billion a year, a cost that gets passed directly to consumers in the form of higher premiums. All told, combined public- and private-sector fraud costs every household in the United States probably around $5,000 a year - or roughly the equivalent of working four months at a minimum-wage job. A hunter-gatherer community that lost four months' worth of food would face a serious threat to its survival, and its retribution against the people who caused that hardship would be immediate and probably very violent. Westerners — Sebastian Junger

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films. — Michel Gondry

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. — Patty Murray

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it. — Marlee Matlin

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself. — Harry Allen Overstreet

Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS. — Wade Barrett

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know. — Zig Ziglar

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them. — Julia Cameron

You can't expect men to appreciate you. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. Even women won't always appreciate what you do, so why should the men understand you any better? The only person who will always know what you did, and why you did it, is yourself. If you try to do what's right, that should be enough. Remind yourself of that when it seems as if it isn't. — C. Dale Brittain

But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain. — P.G. Wodehouse

If you write what you love everything else will follow. — Mark Rubinstein