Gayle Forman Quotes

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

Gayle Forman

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WishBornNeverDaysUsBeen

I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can't do anything to change it - and I wouldn't have acquired the voice that I have.

Jimmy Scott

ChangeVoiceBornNeverAnything

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

John C. Maxwell

LifeTimePurposePeopleActivities

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

GoodManGood ManFriendsYouBad

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since.

Stuart Rose

FatherMotherSisterNightKitchen

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

PeopleThoughtGrowWhyUnderstand

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

Steve Wynn

TruthSimplePeopleSmellTellKeep

In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included many Confederate generals, began a school of thought called the Lost Cause in which they began to romanticize the Confederacy.

Ron Chernow

PeaceSchoolWarThoughtYouKnow

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Ronald Reagan

ProblemsOnlyThemRearrangeSolve

There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

Demetri Martin

TimeMeWorldThinkNamePlace

Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.

Cornelia Parker

ThinkDrawingAlwaysOverOutLast

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

Bobby Knight

HomeGodMyselfHelpYouLook

I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.

Shawn Colvin

PeopleMindChallengesConfidentUp

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