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How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could. — Jack Gilbert

People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge. — Donald L. Hicks

soups are the food equivalent of a warm hug — Penny Reid

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that. — Emmylou Harris

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up. — Vladimir Lenin

Back off, Jack-I got four brothers protecting my ass,' and I just rode on by him — Elizabeth Gilbert

Every Jack
He must study the knack
If he wants to make sure of his Jill! — W.S. Gilbert

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not. — Jack Gilbert

It's not the dreams.
It's this love of you
that grows in me
malignant. — Jack Gilbert

Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present. — Jack Gilbert

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. — Jack Gilbert

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them. — Jack Gilbert

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew. — Jack Gilbert

Question the bravery.
Say it's not courage. Call it a passion. — Jack Gilbert

I'm more interested in producing than acting. — Lance Bass

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at. — Jack Gilbert

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. — Jack Gilbert

I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist. — Gilbert Gottfried

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. — Jack Gilbert

The heart lies to itself because it must. — Jack Gilbert

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in? — Jim Gaffigan

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. — Wilbur Smith

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. — Jack Gilbert

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. — Vince Lombardi

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that. — Jack Gilbert

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can. — Jack Gilbert

It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow. — Jack Gilbert

True freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes. — Terry Pratchett

But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down. — Jack Gilbert

Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives. — Barton Gellman

Do you know where he went? — Menna Van Praag

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed
at his own speed. — Jack Gilbert