Private Gomer Pyle Quotes & Sayings

God Almighty is my sacred shelter. — Lailah Gifty Akita

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue. — Elbert Hubbard

She smelled like halved apples and the new metal of sewing needles and a little like cinnamon. — Anna-Marie McLemore

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. — Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert

Wake up, my guest /
You have slept long /
In the house of my ribs, /
The House of my heart /
Wake up now, /
See through my eyes, /
Walk with my feet, /
Yush, my old friend — Greg Keyes

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! — Jonathan Coe

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. — Anna Chlumsky

People say that Paris is the city of love, but for Raia, New York deserves the title more. It's imposible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city — Ika Natassa

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. — Colin Quinn