Gef > Gef's Quotes

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”
― W.C. Fields

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.”
― Stephen Colbert

“That Hellboy gun of Yours? It's not scientifically possible. It flaunts the laws of physics like a teenager on Rumspringa...”
― Michael R. Underwood, Attack the Geek

“It is technically impossible for a man to look better in a Speedo than in swim trunks.”
― Jennifer Egan, Black Box

“Home is where they want you to stay longer.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Quiet is really just a lot of small noises that most people don’t notice.”
― Robert Dunbar, Willy

“If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.”
― Eudora Welty

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings