Jonathan Fisher Quotes

One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher ~ J.E.B. Spredemann

The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren't involved. Only the skin color of the dead is different. ~ Jonathan Carroll

So, then why am I your son?" "Because Mom and I made love, and one of my sperm fertilized one of her eggs." "Excuse me while I regurgitate." "Don't act your age. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Good is the enemy of great. ~ Jonathan Ive

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world. ~ Helen Fisher

most bravery boiled down to nothing more than a strong sense of duty that piggybacked an even stronger sense of crazy. Everything brave was a little bit crazy. ~ Tarryn Fisher

She'd visited the Continent five times on vacation and twice on business trips with Alfred, so about a dozen times altogether, and to friends planning tours of Spain or France she now liked to say, with a sigh, that she'd had her fill of the place. ~ Jonathan Franzen

It didn't take me long to realize that Caleb was my empty planet. ~ Tarryn Fisher

People who live on continents get into the habit of regarding the ocean as journey's end, the full stop at the end of the trek. For people who live on islands, the sea is always the beginning. It's the ferry to the mainland, the escape route from the boredom and narrowness of home. ~ Jonathan Raban

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Love comes slow, but God does it go fast. He was beautiful - then he was ugly. I esteemed him, then I esteemed him not. ~ Tarryn Fisher

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. ~ M.F.K. Fisher

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. ~ Helen Fisher

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. ~ Jonathan Swift

Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination." ~ John Adams

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. ~ Jonathan Swift

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility. ~ Jonathan Rauch

Love sticks, and it stays and it braves the bullshit. ~ Tarryn Fisher

Dogs are the kids we've always wanted. They're totally devoted and want to live with you until they die. Not like children who can't wait to take off as soon as they grow up and don't need you anymore. ~ Jonathan Carroll

I live with carpe diem engrave on my heart. ~ M.F.K. Fisher

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. ~ Jonathan Raban

At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country's leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate. ~ Jonathan S. Tobin

There is no greater gift than time. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Salad is roughage and a French idea. ~ M.F.K. Fisher

I marvel at how yearning can make you disintegrate. ~ Tarryn Fisher

Umberto Eco has called his poem 'the apotheosis of the virtual world'. ~ Jonathan Black

Lo!" cried the demon. "I am here! What dost thou seek of me? Why dost thou disturb my repose? Smite me no more with that dread rod!" He looked at Cabal. "Where's your dread rod?"
"I left it at home," replied Cabal. "Didn't think I really needed it."
"You can't summon me without a dread rod!" said Lucifuge, appalled.
"You're here, aren't you?"
"Well, yes, but under false pretences. You haven't got a goatskin or two vervain crowns or two candles of virgin wax made by a virgin girl and duly blessed. Have you got the stone called Ematille?"
"I don't even know what Ematille is."
Neither did the demon. He dropped the subject and moved on. "Four nails from the coffin of a dead child?"
"Don't be fatuous."
"Half a bottle of brandy?"
"I don't drink brandy."
"It's not for you."
"I have a hip flask," said Cabal, and threw it to him. The demon caught it and took a dram.
"Cheers," said Lucifuge, and threw it back. They regarded each other for a long moment. "This really is a shambles," the demon added finally. "What did you summon me for, anyway? ~ Jonathan L. Howard

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

I mean, there's a lot of other things I could do for money. I could sell autographed ECT machines or rhinestoned mood stabilizers or even Star Wars scented laxatives. But do I do that? Do I do a commercial on television to (attempt to) sell a medication while running around some random backyard with some rented golden retriever laughing and looking cured and totally amazed to be so worry-free while a voice comes on and says, "Reginol is not recommended for wayward fish or Libras with dementia. If you notice swelling in your femur or notice a subtle beam of backlight glowing northward from your anus or the anus of someone you went to school with, call your doctor immediately as this could be a symptom of hydrocephalus that could lead to roughhousing and misguided bloat. Reginol is not recommended for pregnant Nazis or yodelers over seventy. Reginol does not protect you from unpopularity or autism . . . " All ~ Carrie Fisher

I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York. ~ Jonathan Ames

Leave some room in your theology for God to be bigger than you can explain ~ Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album ( ... ) Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days. ( ... ) (A)s always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read. ~ Peter Bradshaw

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I've always liked to run. I did it from a conditioning standpoint, you know. I really enjoyed running, and I do it to stay in shape. ~ Jeff Fisher

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes. ~ Jonathan Tropper

That didn't last long, of course. "Oh Bartimaeus, could you just irrigate the Fertile Cresent?""Could you just divert the Euphrates HERE and HERE?""Look, while you're at it, do you mind just planting a few million wheat seeds up and down the flood plain? Thanks." Didn't even give me a dibble. By the time I got to Ur I wasn't surging with any of that terrible joy, oh no. My back was KILLING me. ~ Jonathan Stroud