Jonathan Dunne Quotes

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

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

I wish this country was run by children ~ Jonathan Dunne

But Dunraven refused to ask God – he may as well be asking Santa to comb the area with Rudolph and his toy sled. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Maybe blow-up dolls invaded Ireland during the Dark Ages, landing in the bay here. They raped the men and pillaged the women, adopted the children to imprint their rubbery ways on them, turning them into blow-up orphans. Hence,' she concludes, 'Dollymount Strand. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Everest, son, remember when I told you that asking questions is a sign of weakness? ~ Jonathan Dunne

Except that, very rarely, when the sun shines on her in the same way the sun's rays light up the inside of Stonehenge once a year, Jack finds Ruthy mesmerising. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Humour is my best defence, so humour me. ~ 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

Okay, that's it! I've had enough! I'm going to trade in my Biblical Studies PhD for a hot dog! ~ Jonathan Dunne

Ruthy's got the curves of the Scalextric he had once gotten for Christmas. ~ Jonathan Dunne

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

Why can't people just be happy and live? ~ 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

I'll buy Chiquita bananas with your smoking-fund money cos this monkey is our future. All hail the monkey! ~ Jonathan Dunne

Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Time will always have the answer in the end, whether you like that answer is immaterial to Time because it tends not to keep friends. ~ Jonathan Dunne

If mysterious means a bunch of freaks being brought together by a freak car-accident, then, yes, God does vork in mysterious vays' declared the eldest Russian Doll. ~ 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

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

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

Look,' Jesus points out, 'do you think the guy cleaning the public toilets really wants to be dealing with people's shit on a Monday morning? No, he does it because it's in his contract. I'm dealing with people's shit twenty-four-seven because,' turning to the hobbled crow and speaking sarcastically, 'it's in my contract. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust. ~ Jonathan Dunne

I don't believe he was made in China, but I do believe he is disposable. ~ 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

But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma. ~ 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

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

Earth is such a sweet 'n sour place, thought Gonzo, puffing on his seaweed roll-up, and he knew that if aliens did exist, then they'd probably only stop to avail of this planet's toilet facilities on the intergalactic highway. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Why did you call me Jack of Hearts?'
'Because you like to gamble girls' hearts and play them close to your chest. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Everest is a big, pretentious name for a new-born. But would Dympna have named her only son Everest if she had known that he would be a fat albino boy? The comparisons with the snow-covered mountain peak are startling, to be fair. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Watching copulating dung-beetles is exciting if you drink enough Red Bull, Jack. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Your body isn't really yours, Jackie boy. Your body is mine and I'm claiming squatter's rights. ~ Jonathan Dunne

Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe. ~ Jonathan Dunne

My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night. ~ Jonathan Dunne

My wife's contractions, labour, and birth was the most intense biology class of my life; it certainly topped Glugger's biology classes where we did nothing but burn litmus paper. My wife's waters just broke! Who cares if it's alkaline or acidic! ~ Jonathan Dunne

I'm not comparing Gloria to an Indian elephant, but she was just as big in my life ~ Jonathan Dunne

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

Lately, their love had been reduced to yellow emojis. ~ Jonathan Dunne

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

So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn't see her bottom half? ~ Jonathan Dunne

Humanity must be cut to the ground and allowed to flourish once again ~ Jonathan Dunne

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

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

The problem with a life freely chosen every day, a New Testament life, was that it could end at any moment. ~ Jonathan Franzen

The social psychologist Tom Gilovich studies the cognitive mechanisms of strange beliefs. His simple formulation is that when we want to believe something, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe it?"28 Then (as Kuhn and Perkins found), we search for supporting evidence, and if we find even a single piece of pseudo-evidence, we can stop thinking. We now have permission to believe. We have a justification, in case anyone asks. In contrast, when we don't want to believe something, we ask ourselves, "Must I believe it?" Then we search for contrary evidence, and if we find a single reason to doubt the claim, we can dismiss it. ~ Jonathan Haidt

The odd truth about Alfred was that love, for him, was a matter not of approaching but of keeping away. ~ Jonathan Franzen

When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture. ~ Jonathan Falwell

It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I'm a psychologist and they are not. I don't have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing. ~ Jonathan Franzen

When God is here spoken of as hardening some of the children of men, it is not to be understood that God by any positive efficiency hardens any man's heart. There is no positive act in God, as though he put forth any power to harden the heart. To suppose any such thing would be to make God the immediate author of sin. God is said to harden men in two ways: by withholding the powerful influences of his Spirit, without which their hearts will remain hardened, and grow harder and harder; in this sense he hardens them, as he leaves them to hardness. And again, by ordering those things in his providence which, through the abuse of their corruption, become the occasion of their hardening. Thus God sends his word and ordinances to men which, by their abuse, prove an occasion of their hardening. ~ Jonathan Edwards

I see her again: her face wet with tears, her eyes searching mine. Slowly, very slowly, I reach my hands out and trace my fingertips along her skin, first down her neck, so warm and fragile, then across her breasts and down along the curves of her hips. Then with all my strength I wrap my arms around her and pull her toward me, but she is gone. ~ Jonathan Hull

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

It took us 6 years to get the right weapons to fight BokoHaram ... ~ Goodluck Jonathan

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps. ~ Jonathan Winters

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being. ~ Jonathan Edwards

I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do. ~ Jonathan Turley

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. ~ Jonathan Coe

He invented stories so fantastic she had to believe. Of cours, she was only a child, still removing the dust from her first death. What else could she do? And he was already accumulating the dust of his second death. What else could he do? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. ~ Jonathan Stroud

As she lay awake, she reminded herself that she was beating the depression; she was winning her life back. She had survived, and now she was going to be better than ever before. ~ Jonathan Rottenberg

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of ... ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Self-styled pioneers braved the dirt and crime of rundown neighborhoods where, in the early 1980s, they could buy as much as five thousand square feet in a dilapidated brownstone for as little as $25,000. ~ Jonathan Soffer

My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. ~ Jonathan Swift

People don't adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. People whose genes gave them brains that get a special pleasure from novelty, variety, and diversity, while simultaneously being less sensitive to signs of threat, are predisposed (but not predestined) to become liberals. ~ Jonathan Haidt

That was the way most people were - stupid. ~ Jonathan Franzen

This is how you have adventures. You find cool things and you do them ... you don't just read books about them! ~ Jonathan King

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences. ~ Jonathan Zittrain

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth. ~ Jonathan Ames

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Attempting to write an honest essay doesn't alter the multiplicity of my selves. What changes, if I take the time to stop and measure, is that my multi-selved identity acquires substance. ~ Jonathan Franzen

my brain started misbehaving, and ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am. ~ Jonathan Davis

Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347) ~ Jonathan Maberry

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. ~ Jonathan Swift

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor. ~ Jonathan Sacks

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. ~ Jonathan Edwards

She said I could have a seat on the couch if I wanted to, but I told her I didn't believe in leather, so I stood. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible. ~ Jonathan Lethem

Cher Marcel,
Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should go to French lessons, so he will no longer be going to go see you on Sundays like he used to. I want to thank you very much for everything you have taught Oskar, particularly the conditional tense, which is weird. Obviously, there's no need to call me when Oskar doesn't come to his lessons, because I already know, because this was my decision. Also, I will keep sending you checks, because you are a nice guy.
Votre ami dévouée,
Mademoiselle Schell. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer. ~ Jonathan Trigell

It strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

There is no spirituality without ethics ~ Jonathan Wittenberg

When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them. ~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers

We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells ... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms. ~ Jonathan Eisen

He had pulled too many rabbits from too many hats; insanity had claimed him. ~ Jonathan L. Howard

Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are. ~ Jonathan Tropper

Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it. ~ Jonathan Zittrain