Lieutenant Gruber Quotes & Sayings

A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as 'blobs'. — Cordelia Fine

Loss adjusters are noble men who frustrate and negate the bland promises of insurance. We act out of the great unbending principles in life: nothing is sure, nothing is certain, nothing is free, nothing is forever. It is a noble calling. — William Boyd

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers. — Mick Dennis

Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away.
Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap. — P.W. Catanese

The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence. — Peter Blegvad

Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste. — Ovid

In early Meiji one yen was worth a little more than one American dollars; — George H. Kerr

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. — Madonna

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. — Abraham Verghese

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine. — Yochai Benkler

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content. — Carrie Brownstein

Nothing wrong with changing your mind. That's a very unwaffling thing to say: "Nothing wrong ... " Who am I to say that there's nothing wrong with it? Maybe something is wrong with changing your mind. Anyway, love is very, very difficult. I love. But probably because I hate myself on some deep, sick level, it makes loving difficult. But I do try — Jonathan Ames