Quotes by Author - G

Make it good, George, it's liable to be important.
George Gershwin's father, when George was writing Rhapsody in Blue

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham

I'd like to say I'm easy to work with, but I'm not.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

I want to be alone.
Greta Garbo, reclusive 1930's film star

Work is love made invisible.
Kahlil Gibran

I have a 'Play the Melody' philosophy. It means don't over-arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody - and do it the simplest way possible.
Jackie Gleason

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheilah Graham

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 kinds of cheeses?
Charles de Gaulle, as president of France

Missions isn't crossing the sea; it's seeing the cross.
David Guinn

If you please God, it doesn't matter you who displease.
If you displease God, it doesn't matter who you please.
David Guinn

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian

Too many friendships languish at the bottom of our priority list, untouched like some endlessly postponed dessert. Too many marriages grow numb waiting for intimate stretches of time. Too few of us resolve to sing, or to walk in the rain, to make love, or to make someone laugh. Too many of us forget what we want.

The pursuit of happiness that once carried the weight of the American Revolution now seems frivolous and has to wait. But joy is also a habit. Use it or lose it. And happiness is not a banal smiley face to stick on an envelope. It's an option that we must exercise or watch atrophy.
Ellen Goodman, journalist

Let's have some new clichés.
Samuel Goldwyn

Marriages that flourish are friendships that are characterized by the daily decision to take delight in and give grace to one's spouse.
Stever Garber

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jerry Garcia

An authentic leader acts in ways which serve to elevate those around him.
Sean M. Georges, author

He who laughs lasts didn't get it.
Helen Giangregorio

Either I've been missing something or nothing exciting has been going on.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'brightness', but it doesn't work.
Gallagher

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracián

If I marry: he must be so tall that when he is on his knees, he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss.
Ruth Bell Graham at seventeen, when she intended to never marry

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
Arthur Golden, author

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain form comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide (1869-1951), writer

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran, author

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Vic Gold

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
Allan Goldfein

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
Curtis Grant, writer

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no one dares criticize it.
Pierre Gallois

Plunge boldly into the thick of life.
Goethe (1749-1832), writer

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), poet

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet and philosopher

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.
Charles Garfield, author

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet/novelist

Yes, there is Nirvana; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran, author

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference... and the sense of humor when I don't know the difference.
Joel Goodman adding to Reinhold Niebuhr

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiation of their personalities.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), poet and artist

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of Earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), poet

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed, yet.
William Gibson

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Love is a game that two can play and both can win.
Eva Gabor (1919-1995), actress

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Shakti Gawain, personal growth coach (whatever that is! :) )

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Cary Grant

By trying to make things easier for their children parents can make things much harder for them.
Mary Grothe (1942-), psychologist and author

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.
Cary Grant (1904-1986)

Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman (1911-1972), writer

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old are.
Cary Grant (1904-1986), actor

I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Samuel Goldwyn

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), mystic/poet/artist

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
Cindy Gardner

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina

I do not feel obliged to believe the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Ghandi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (1869-1948)

First thoughts are the strongest.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), poet

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you can imagine.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet/philosopher

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), writer

Worry deprives us of our right to enjoy our life without giving us anything in return.
Robert Gerzon, therapist

It never occurs to me that there are things that I can't do.
Whoopi Goldberg

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni, poet

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who moves not forward goes backward.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer/poet

I think that anyone who has had a decent life has an obligation to give back.
Kelsey Grammer

It is better to say, "This one thing I do," than "These forty things I dabble in."
Washington Gladden, clergyman/writer/lecturer

I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon (1737-94), historian

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