S. Gregory Quotes
Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.
My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.
Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.
Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.
That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.
