Lellis Gill Quotes & Sayings

Upon finding the letter, I had one of those out of body experiences that come only after poring over archival material for nine hours straight, most of it dull as dust, but then something like this appears and you look around at the two or three other glaze-eyed researchers and want to go around the room and give everyone a high-five, but instead you just get up and quietly go to the water fountain, then make a notation for photocopy, and crack the next folder. — Jay Kirk

A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar. — Heather O'Neill

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. — Emma Goldman

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all. — Lauren Oliver

Arthur and Trillian had the fixed expressions of rabbits on a night road who think that the best way of dealing with approaching headlights is to stare them out. Zaphod — Douglas Adams

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen. — George W. Bush

Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story. — Terry McMillan

It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed. — Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies. — Kristen Schaal

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique ... If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born.
Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78 — Martin Buber

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles. — Bruce Boxleitner

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. — Mark Epstein