Old Gill Quotes & Sayings

Old guns rarely die, they just hang on walls. — A.A. Gill

Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. — Jane Austen

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs. — George Eliot

It was one thing not taking an old bitterness to a new country. It was another to actually pay to send back Libyan Semtex to blow up my home. — A.A. Gill

Why Brownlee left, and where he went,
Is a mystery even now.
For if a man should have been content
It was him; two acres of barley,
One of potatoes, four bullocks,
A milker, a slated farmhouse.
He was last seen going out to plough
On a March morning, bright and early.

By noon Brownlee was famous;
They had found all abandoned, with
The last rig unbroken, his pair of black
Horses, like man and wife,
Shifting their weight from foot to
Foot, and gazing into the future. — Paul Muldoon

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: Winter is dead. — A.A. Milne

My old chief taught me three lessons: Never believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. Never go into debt because you will never get out. And never pat yourself on the back because karma will bite you in the ass.
Karma, I think, meet ass. — David Macinnis Gill

life is a classroom. we are both student and teacher. each day is a test. and each day we receive a passing or failing grade in one particular subject: grace. grace is compassion, gratitude, surrender, faith, forgiveness, good manners, reverence, and the list goes on. it's something money can't buy and credentials rarely produce. being the smartest, the prettiest, the most talented, the richest, or even the poorest, can't help. being a humble person can and being a helpful person can guide you through your days with grace and gratitude. — Gary Hart

It's so much easier to be cynical. — Louie Anderson

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult. — Jamie Lynn Spears

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution. — Carly Fiorina

I'm in love with you ... can't u see it in my eyes — Sereana Crowley

The moment we notice our thoughts is one of the most transformative experiences we can have. — Teresa DeCicco

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive. — William Bridges

My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. — Suzanne Collins