Know it all Quote by Gerald Durrell Download Open image ““Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.”” — Gerald Durrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Know it all
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in the world's… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what we find out, Larry, what we're always finding out, that every little thing matters.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“I thought my mum would be probably rather have us round for tea in her room, but Larry said he wanted to take he… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was indescribable; the… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“We did sixty-nine that night. Larry went on top so he didn’t get squished. He’s really good at sucking dick. I wondered if he’d… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“It had been a marvelous childhood. Damn near perfect. If he was not leading the life he'd anticipated, if he sometimes lay in bed… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of… — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“Lying spread-eagled in the silky water, gazing into the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly to keep afloat, I was looking at… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping. The hens would all glance nervously round, each waiting for one of the others to show signs of life. The Magenpies would call again, more seductively and urgently. Suddenly, one hen with less self-control than the… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
“The noise of drinking was exhilarating. Champagne corks popped and the pale, chrysanthemum-coloured liquid, whispering gleefully with bubbles, hissed into the glasses; heavy red wine glupped into the goblets, thick and crimson as the blood of some mythical monster, and a swirling wreath of pink bubbles formed on the surface; the frosty white wine tiptoed into the glasses, shrilling, gleaming,… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer.… — John Marsden Copy Share
Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image