Gary Jennings famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
-- Gary Jennings

#Inspirational #Two #Time And Love
Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.
-- Gary Jennings

#Memories #Real #Believe
Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce aboutâ€¦go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.
-- Gary Jennings

#Adventure #People #Reminiscing
I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and what a waste they have been--of each other, and of love, which is the most unpardonable waste there is. Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
-- Gary Jennings

#Thinking #Years #Two
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.
-- Gary Jennings

#Writing
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do not go to the Christian heaven?" He was told that that would indeed be the worst of his punishments: that he would most assuredly not go to Heaven. At which, his smile sent a thrill of horror through every soul of the Court.
-- Gary Jennings

#Christian #Mean #Punishment

The things that make me different are the things that make me.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

Gary Jennings famous quotes

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