Quotes About Gilbert

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

I waited until the end of the 'Behold Electric Guitar' recording sessions to record 'A Herd of Turtles,' as I knew the unusual arrangement might raise some eyebrows.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

The man is a perfect dragon for protocol.

I'm damn sure not going to rent a place—what am I, an immigrant?

Psychologists call that state of deluded madness narcissistic love. I call it my twenties.

I'm not a virgin, Jim," I repeated—as though the problem had been that he hadn't heard me correctly the first time. He sat up and stared ahead for a long time, collecting himself. Quietly, I put my shirt back on. This is not the sort of conversation that you want to be having while your boobs are hanging out.

His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But

to unfold a certain beauty and transcendence within her life that she cannot seem to access in any other manner.

Martin Kampmann, that was a war. Jake Ellenberger, that was a war. Then I didn't take damage until Gilbert Melendez.

Gilbert McFarland was tall and slender, with brown eyes and a mouth upturned in a perpetual smile. His thick brown hair was hidden under the old floppy fishing hat he always wore, which sported an assortment of hand-tied flies and a button that proclaimed ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH...

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

You can't really predict what the fans love.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

P.S.2. I have put in a new pen. And I love you because you aren't pompous like Dr. Carter . . . and I love you because you haven't got sticky-out ears like Johnny. And . . . the very best reason of all . . . I love you for just being Gilbert!

Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across.

And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.

I know what you're thinking; you're thinking: it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. Well you're not the Mikado and I'm not Mr Gilbert.

Our mental skills expert Gilbert Enoka is just amazing the work he does.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.