Gish Famous Quotes & Sayings
70 Gish Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.— Dorothy Gish
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.— Lillian Gish
These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.— Gish Jen
Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.— Duane Gish
That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.— Gish Jen
Of course he bothers me. He's my husband.— Gish Jen
As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.— Lillian Gish
A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.— Gish Jen
So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.— Michael Shermer
I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.— Gish Jen
I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.— Gish Jen
For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.— Gish Jen
Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.— Gish Jen
Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.— Gish Jen
I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.— Gish Jen
Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.— Gish Jen
He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.— Gish Jen
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.— Duane Gish
There is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.— Gish Jen
The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.— Gish Jen
It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).— Gish Jen
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.— Lillian Gish
I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.— Dorothy Gish
Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.— Billy Corgan
I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.— Annabeth Gish
He would not want to sound like a haunted man; he would not want to sound as though he was calling from a welfare hotel, years too late, to say Yes, that was a baby we had together, it would have been a baby. For he could not help now but recall the doctor explaining about that child, a boy, who had appeared so mysteriously perfect in the ultrasound. Transparent, he had looked, and gelatinous, all soft head and quick heart; but he would have, in being born, broken every bone in his body.— Gish Jen
A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.— Annabeth Gish
I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.— Dorothy Gish
Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.— Duane T. Gish
He looked at me like Lillian Gish coming out of a swoon.— P.G. Wodehouse
"Is this Bertie Wooster talking?" he said, pained.
"Yes, it jolly well is!"
"Bertie, old man," said Bingo, patting me gently here and there, "reflect! We were at school - "
"Oh, all right!
Why, O Gish, does thou run about?— Anonymous
The life that thou seekest, thou wilt not find.
I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.— Lillian Gish
A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.— Gish Jen
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety— Lillian Gish
not even joy.
We buy things we do not need to impress people we do not like.— Arthur Gish
Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.— Gish Jen
There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.— Gish Jen
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.— Lillian Gish
What you get is a living, what you give is a life.— Lillian Gish
Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.— D.W. Griffith
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You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.— Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.— Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Plain boiled food, plain boiled thinking. Even his name is plain boiled: John. Maybe because I grew up with black bean sauce and hoisin sauce and garlic sauce, I always feel something is missing when my son-in-law talk.— Gish Jen
We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to divine creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigations anything about the creative processes used by God.— Duane Gish
What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit.— Gish Jen
Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.— Annabeth Gish
I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.— Lillian Gish
Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.— Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.— Fay Wray
What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.— Duane Gish
Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurd ... The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.— Duane Gish
When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.— Gish Jen
One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.— Gish Jen
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.— Gish Jen
What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares me are the catastrophic events like my husband or children or my family being harmed, or something like that.— Annabeth Gish
It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!— Gish Jen
Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.— Lillian Gish
In truth, he had always considered the sight of men eating croissants slightly ridiculous, especially at the beginning, when for the first bite they had to maneuver the point of the crescent into their mouths. No matter what a person did, he ended up with an asymmetrical mouthful of pastry, which he then had to relocate with his tongue to a more central location. This made him look less purposive than he might. Also, croissants were more apt than other breakfast foods to spray little flakes all over one's clean dark suit. Art himself had accordingly never ordered a croissant in any working situation, and he believed that attention to this sort of detail was how it was that he had not lost his job like so many of his colleagues.— Gish Jen
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ... and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.— Michael Ruse
I'm no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.— Annabeth Gish
He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America.— Gish Jen
The stage was our school, our home, our life.— Lillian Gish
I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.— Lillian Gish
Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.— Dorothy Gish
Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.— Lillian Gish
If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.— Billy Corgan
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.— Annabeth Gish
The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.— Lillian Gish
Never get caught acting.— Lillian Gish
I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.— Dorothy Gish
