G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.”
“Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution”
“Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!”
Source: My Opposition
“Gutes tun will überlegt und gelernt sein.”
“Guthrie Lochrin, a Scottish wizard writing in 1107, spoke of the 'splinter-filled buttocks and bulging piles' he suffered after a short broom ride from Montrose to Arbroath.”
Source: Quidditch Through the Ages
“Guthrie turned to see who his attacker was. And smiled when he caught her eye.
He had the most devilishly wolfish look about him -- a mixture of impending payback with a snowball and something a wee bit more intimate, like a tackle in the snow. But he wouldn't. Not in front of his clansmen. Not when they weren't courting. At least, she hoped not.”
Source: A Highland Wolf Christmas
“Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.”
Source: The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life
“Guts is about how long you can delay the cash out.”
“Guts win more games than ability.”
“Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)”
“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“Guy Fieri's hair is the front lawn to hell.”
“Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.”
“Guy, go get me a switch. This muthafucker done pissed the bed again.”
Source: Ghetto Bastard: A Memoir
“Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."”
“Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?”
“Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.”
“Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".”
“Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.”
Source: El libro de las setas
“Guy on the plane I'm on has a text alert that sounds like a gunshot... And he isn't putting it on vibrate.”
“Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.”
“Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.”
“Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!”
“Guy Picciotto had a really sound point: Live albums basically have bands playing songs that are available on studio records, and what example can you think of where the live album is better? What are the great live albums? I have live albums of bands, but I wouldn't listen to them for the most part. So we thought, instead of spending energy trying to puzzle out how to create a live record, let's just write another studio record.”
“Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director of the people who actually get to make movies. As we speak, there are human beings walking the Earth - perhaps as many as a half dozen of them - with less directorial talent, but they've been safely diverted into other activities.”
“Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.”
“Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.”
“Guy’s don't usually cry, but when they do, nobody can realize that what they have been going through.”
“Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power to psychically kill goats. Guy was bewildered. He did not go around publicizing this. Who were these men? How did they know about the goats? He feigned a casual tone of voice and said, 'Sure I can.'Then he phoned Special Forces.”
“Guy Speer called it cocaine brain. Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does…”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“Guy suddenly wanted to scald his face, gain fifty pounds, shear his hair. He was sick of his beauty, his “eternal” beauty. People thought he was purer, more intelligent, kinder, nobler than he was because they ascribed all these virtues to him. What if he were stripped of his looks, if he stabbed the grotesque painting in the attic? If they saw him for what he really was – empty-headed, vicieux (how did you translate that? “Riddled with vices?”), narcisse? Used to being indulged and pursued, terrified he’d outlive his fatal appeal and yet longing to be free of it?”
Source: Our Young Man
“Guy was saying, “What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?"
"Something in my body language?"
He groaned. “That was bad—even for you.”
Source: The Dark Tide
“Guy's a psychopath,even by vampire standards. And that's saying something.”
“Guy? Mister? Mr. Goth Man, would you please wake up so I can leave? I really don't want to hang out in a closet with a dead man any longer than I have to, okay? C'mon, please, don't make this a Weekend at Bernie's thing! (Amanda)”
Source: Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
“Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!”
“Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.”
“Guys and their initiative - sometimes that too is like extracting meat from the armature of a crab.”
Source: A Delirious Summer
“Guys are a lot like kitchen floors – lay ‘em right the first time and you can walk all over them for years.”
Source: Baby, I'm Yours
“Guys are accessories, until one proves he's a necessity”
“Guys are accessories, until one proves he's an necessity.”
“Guys are all sperm-guns.”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“Guys are control freaks and hate when other people know what's best for them”
Source: Return to Paradise
“Guys Are Eyes.”
“Guys are faster, they're bigger and they're stronger. I think that's probably the main thing. And that's not just in football, I think it's in every sport.”
“Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.”
Source: Postcards From the Edge
“Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.”
“Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.”
“Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.”
“Guys are like dogs. You wish you could take them all home when they're young. But after they've howled all night and slobbered all over everything, you come to realize the ones already trained are much easier to live with.”
Source: If I Were a Man, I'd Marry Me
“Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.”