Gabriel Quotes

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. (Armistead Maupin)

It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.

John Updike

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

Wynton Marsalis

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

Armistead Maupin

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

Phil Collins

A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus. "I'm Gabriel.” Magnus waved a hand. "All Lightwoods look the same to me.

Cassandra Clare

You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.

Cassandra Clare

You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon's father we're discussing.” "We're not just discussing him; we're chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he's turned into a worm.

Cassandra Clare

My dearest little Julie, I love you as I lie dying; I shall still love you when I am dead. I beg of you, do not cry; this parting was inevitable. I would have liked to be with you until you married – Work hard and be good as you have always been; you have never caused me a moment's sorrow in you little life [Julie is 16, then]. You have beauty, good fortune; use them well. I think the best thing would be to live with your cousins in the Rue de Villejust, but I do not wish to force you to do anything. Give a memento of me to you aunt Edma [Berthe's sister], and to your cousins too; and give Monet's [painting] 'Bateaux en reparation' to your cousin Gabriel. Tell M. Degas that if he found a museum he is to choose a Manet [of her Manet paintings]. A keepsake for Monet; one for Renoir, and one of my drawings for Bartolomé. Give something to the two concierges. Do not cry, I love you more than I can tell you.

Berthe Morisot

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort.” "Oh?” "The taken. The uninterested.” "As opposed to... you, Gabriel?” "Well, yes.

Cassandra Clare

Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon. Gideon threw a scone at him. (Cassandra Clare)

Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.

Cassandra Clare

You should see his older brother,” said Jem. "Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that's possible.

Cassandra Clare

You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures.

Cassandra Clare

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.

Cassandra Clare

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

Cassandra Clare

It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.

Cassandra Clare

Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. "If it was your family?” His lip curled. "Never mind. It's not as if you know the meaning of loyalty -” "Gabriel.” Gideon's voice was a reprimand to his brother. "Do not speak to Will in that manner.

Cassandra Clare

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Francine Prose

When I created Quirke, he was 6ft 6in and blond. But then a woman reader wrote to me and said, 'Why do you keep saying his hair is blond? It's not. It's brown.' I wrote back to her and told her that, of course, she was right. So I darkened his hair and now that he's being played by Gabriel Byrne; with each successive book he gets a bit smaller and smaller.

John Banville

And it is here under this oak where Evangeline waited for her lover, Gabriel, who never came. This oak is an immortal spot, made so by Longfellow's poem, but Evangeline is not the only one who has waited here in disappointment.
Where are the schools that you have waited for your children to have, that have never come? Where are the roads and the highways that you send your money to build, that are no nearer now than ever before? Where are the institutions to care for the sick and disabled? Evangeline wept bitter tears in her disappointment, but it lasted through only one lifetime. Your tears in this country, around this oak, have lasted for generations. Give me the chance to dry the eyes of those who still weep here! (Huey Long)

Gabriel scowled through his glasses. Why were ghosts such imbeciles? Who could be blamed for striving, at any cost, to avoid forever the decay-of-self that death was?

Tim Powers

"William will marry eventually,” he said in a quieter tone. He'll try to have children-he doesn't believe any of this.” "Not even in God,” said Maria sadly, shaking her head, "who is our only hope.” "And an unhelpfully remote and theoretical hope, at that,” Gabriel snapped.

Tim Powers

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Sting (musician)

The idea that God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord in Arabia, and he's able to write this down perfectly and it contains the answers to all - don't waste my time with that bulls**t. Also, the archangel Gabriel speaks only Arabic, it seems? Crap.

Christopher Hitchens

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