Gail Quotes

Gail Quote of the day

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.

You’re so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God’s part that there’s one person who matches inside and out.

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running.

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

...These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-""That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment

I don’t know if he’ll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.