Quotes - Jay Clark (jaydclark) (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 38

#1

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

#2

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
― robert heinlein

tags: writing

379 likes

#3

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

6032 likes

#4

“Supposing is good, but finding out is better.”
― Mark Twain

tags: investigation, learning, supposition

4 likes

#5

“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”
― Dan Savage, American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

tags: bible, bible-interpretation, lgbt

66 likes

#6

“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

429 likes

#7

“the truth is often a mixed message”
― dan savage

15 likes

#8

“just because it offends you doesn't mean it violates your rights. You don't have a right to not be offended”
― Marie Sexton, Between Sinners and Saints

9 likes

#9

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

30815 likes

#10

“Me, a tease? I am not. I put out...thank you very much.

- Jamie Killian”
― J.L. Langley, The Tin Star

84 likes

#11

“You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Collection

37 likes

#12

“I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

tags: framing, jungle, storytelling, writing

35 likes

#13

“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ”
― Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

tags: first-sentence, happiness, politics

55 likes

#14

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39249 likes

#15

“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. ”
― Rita Mae Brown

91 likes

#16

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters

205 likes

#17

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93522 likes

#18

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151337 likes

#19

“I wouldn't miss this fake-homo show for all the Gucci Shoes on Rodeo Drive.”
― River Jaymes, The Backup Boyfriend

tags: funny, humorous

45 likes

#20

“Jesus had two Dads and he turned out okay.”
― River Jaymes, The Backup Boyfriend

61 likes

#21

“This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

24 likes

#22

“I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.”
― Josh Lanyon, Sort of Stranger Than Fiction

tags: love, romance

149 likes

#23

“The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dickens with Love

tags: humor, reading, witty

102 likes

#24

“He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.”
― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King

80 likes

#25

“Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

59 likes

#26

“You were the first in every way that counted.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide

tags: jake

54 likes

#27

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4662 likes

#28

“That's part of being gay, you know. It's not just who you want in bed. It's who your emotional relationships are with the other twenty-three hours of the day, whose arms you want around you when life hands you shit.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

41 likes

#29

“It’s a gift beyond price, to know you are loved, without conditions, without limits, without end.”
― Kaje Harper, Home Work

tags: love

16 likes

#30

“Mac blinked. That smile should be registered as a deadly weapon.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

7 likes

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