Gerhard > Gerhard's Quotes

“November arrives in Northern Maine on a cold wind from Canada that knives unfiltered through the thinnest forest, drapes snow along the river banks and over the slope of hills. It's lonely up here, not just in fall and winter but all the time; the weather is gray and hard and the spaces are long and hard, and that north wind blows through every space unmercifully, rattling the syllables out of your sentences sometimes.”
― Gerard Donovan, Julius Winsome

“He set off right away, glad of his boots, an old army pair. The leather had outlasted three complete sets of stitching. They were the most comfortable footwear he had ever known. There's no happiness like a good pair of boots, he thought as he walked. Boots, if they were just exactly right for you, changed the way you felt. In fact, there was no happiness like marching alone up a track towards evening in the desert. His limbs tingled. For a while he didn't care if he ever found what he was looking for, if he had to give it all up tomorrow. Nothing mattered but this march through the wide open air of the desert hillside.”
― Henry Shukman, The Lost City

“He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.”
― Charles Stevenson Wright, The Wig: A Mirror Image

“I want ice-cream to taste like it tasted when I was eighteen and there was a heatwave in the city and I walked bare-footed and short-skirted down the streets sucking the bottom of a cornet.”
― Nell Dunn and Adrian Henri

“When you are getting on in years it is nice to sit by the fire and drink a cup of tea and listen to the school bell sounding dinner, call-over, prep., and lights out. Chips always wound up the clock after that last bell; then he put the wire guard in front of the fire, turned out the gas, and carried a detective novel to bed. Rarely did he read more than a page of it before sleep came swiftly and peacefully, more like a mystic intensifying of perception than any changeful entrance into another world. For his days and nights were equally full of dreaming.”
― James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back and see it was full of treasures.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
― Sitting Bull

“So, whether the world is going to pieces or not, whether you are on the side of the angels or the devil himself, take life for what it is, have fun, spread joy and confusion.”
― Henry Miller, Sextet: Six essays

“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.”
― Henry Miller, Sextet: Six essays

“What most people fear when they think of old age is the inability to make new friends. If one ever had the faculty of making friends one never loses it however old one grows. Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.”
― Henry Miller, Sextet: Six essays

“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“The reality is; there is something which exist but what that something is; remains a question. Either because we are not capable to reveal it yet or because with time and movement it changes itself and has no truth in it. But what’s the reason for its existence without having or revealing any truth, that’s the evidence we need to find.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

“Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

“the gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

“Genuine leadership occurs as an act of service to empower others to be their best.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Metaframe Adept

“Those who are fearful will find courage.
Those who are fearless will not know courage.
Those who are doubtful will find faith.
Those who are certain will not know faith.
Those who are shameful will find honor.
Those who are shameless will not know honor.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

“Jackson?’ ‘Sir?’ ‘What’s a pundit?’ ‘I think it’s one of them Indian geezers, sir, as comes up and strangles you from behind.’ ‘Yes, that sounds very likely.”
― Desmond Cory, The Strange Attractor

“I don’t know anything about the Bible, ma, the only thing I know is what you taught me, which is stuff like being kind to animals and always leave the horse in a better state after you get off of him than he was when you got on.”
― Mary Pagones, Fortune's Fool