Jonathan Dunne Goodreads Quotes

I'm just one more PhD, looking up at the stars, asking why are we here, while the down-and-outs under the bridge are asking the same question. ~ Jonathan Dunne

The human being is not being human. ~ Jonathan Dunne

I am the manacle chained to Man's ankles. Only when he sees the light will he be set free of my shackles, and I, the manacle, be set free of my shackles: Man. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Today is the day that I learn women have an innate connection to Mother Nature; a sixth sense for the bitter-sweet cycle of life, whereas men are challenged with five. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Humour is my best defence, so humour me. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Marvin wasn't a beat-box gangsta-rapper-bitch, but a stressed invalid in a town not equipped with ramps. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Nicky, the van's on fire!'
'Fuck the van, Willy! We got ourselves a prodigy child! ~ Jonathan Dunne

Even if we don't have a clock, we're all on the clock – from clocking in and out at work to clocking in and out of this world. ~ Jonathan Dunne

The only time we stopped having nightmares was while we slept. ~ Jonathan Dunne

They had taken see-no-evil and had made it their own by adopting a state sanctioned Orwellian see-no-evil policy ~ Jonathan Dunne

I try to dig deep into my memory vault but my memory fault is all I find. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Unicorns are for those who aren't content with the wonders this world holds...not that I've seen any of it. ~ Jonathan Dunne

I wish this country was run by children ~ Jonathan Dunne

Yes, Cabbage: prison diplomacy. It's called offering the newcomer a very warm welcome. You can tell Mares that I made lots of friends at two in the morning on the first night and continued making friends in the back of the laundry room and if I didn't make friends there they would shove me into an industrial tumble-dryer and spin me around a few times until I was dizzy enough to make lots of friends at the same time. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Payback takes many forms but from the business-end of a Christmas turkey isn't a form I would've bet on... ~ Jonathan Dunne

I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps... ~ Jonathan Dunne

She is the clock-guardian. I was thinking about getting a German Shepherd, but they don't blow fire. ~ Jonathan Dunne

And that's the best thing about this crazy journey: I am forgetting that I'm an old man instead of the Alzheimer's reminding me by forgetting ~ Jonathan Dunne

Instead of leaving on a gas-guzzling generator all night, Mama and Papa make a killing by making hard 'n fast love like a couple of blinded down-'n-out mixamatosis rabbits with nothing to live for. ~ Jonathan Dunne

What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven't noticed, Jack. Those two strangers – that man and woman sitting on my sofa – are actually my parents. Oh, you mean your place? Yes, let's evict your parents…let's place them neatly in a cardboard box and leave it by the rubbish bins! ~ Jonathan Dunne

See this Swiss army knife, Lawless! It's gotta magnifying glass and a million blades but I only need one, so step right the fuck back! ~ Jonathan Dunne

Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination. ~ Jonathan Carroll

Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is. ~ Jonathan Goldstein

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message. ~ Jonathan Wallace

Fog spilled from the heights of San Francisco like the liquid it almost was. On better days it spread across the bay and took over Oakland street by street, a thing you saw coming, a change you watched happening to you, a season on the move. Where it encountered redwoods, the most local of rains fell. Where it found open space, its weightless pale passage seemed both endless and like the end of all things. It was a temporary sadness, the more beautiful for being sad, the more precious for being temporary. It was the slow song in minor that the rock-and-roll sun then chased away. ~ Jonathan Franzen

My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property. ~ Jonathan Galassi

Why do most people take the shortest route to settle their differences and just walk off, break up and go separate ways instead of trying to talk and work things out? ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator? ~ Jonathan Falwell

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it. ~ Jonathan Edwards

The only decoration on the gray segments of her cubicle was a bumper sticker, AT LEAST THE WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOING WELL. Her colleagues' cubicles were covered with photos ~ Jonathan Franzen

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ~ Jonathan Aitken

My mom and dad were extremely supportive. But my mom, she definitely made a lot of sacrifices, specifically because she wasn't working at the time. She ended up going and finding a job so she could continue to put me through gymnastics. ~ Jonathan Horton

I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realize people are buying the whole thing. ~ Jonathan Lethem

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

To preach that Jesus is the true King over all kings, the only true Son of God, and therefore the only one worthy of worship is not merely a personal conviction of individual piety but is necessarily a public, political, and polemical proclamation. ~ Jonathan T. Pennington

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it. ~ Jonathan Franzen

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture. ~ Jonathan Dee

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. ~ Jonathan Swift

The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life. ~ Jonathan Franzen

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

Katz could see that Patty, in the seemingly random life-meanderings that Walter had just described to him, had in fact deliberately been trampling symbols in a cornfield, spelling out a message unreadable to Walter at ground level but clear as could be to Katz at great height. IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S NOT OVER. ~ Jonathan Franzen

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. ~ Jonathan Franzen

The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive) ~ Jonathan Lethem

that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of ~ Jonathan Swift

You have to realize that when I started to work on 'Aladdin', Disney Theatrical wasn't in existence. I suppose I had always hoped that 'Aladdin' would be somewhere on the runway. ~ Jonathan Freeman

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects. ~ Jonathan Mayhew