John > John's Quotes

“So. Avelaval. My leaves have drifted from me. All. But one clings still. I'll bear it on me. To remind me of. Lff! So soft this morning, ours. Yes. Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair! If I seen him bearing down on me now under whitespread wings like he'd come from Arkangels, I sink I'd die down over his feet, humbly dumbly, only to washup. Yes, tid. There's where. First. We pass through grass behush the bush to. Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thousendsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the—riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.”
― Christopher Burns, The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry

“There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”
― Christopher Burns, The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry

“God is indeed a jealous God He cannot bear to see That we had rather not with Him But with each other play. Emily Dickinson, c.1864”
― Christopher Burns, The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry

“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a ‘Fascist,’” Hearst declared, “you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a LOYAL CITIZEN WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICANISM.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a ‘Fascist,’” Hearst declared, “you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a LOYAL CITIZEN WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICANISM.” Beginning in November 1934, Hearst sent reporters disguised as students into college classrooms, to trap teachers in unconventional comments. Nobody wanted to change the American economic system, he said, except for “a few incurable malcontents, a few sapheaded college boys, and a few unbalanced college professors.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“Americans ignore history”
― Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

“The whole life-energy of the greatest nations had been poured out in wrath and slaughter.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948

“There is not one of the peoples or provinces that constituted the Empire of the Habsburgs to whom gaining their independence has not brought the tortures which ancient poets and theologians had reserved for the damned.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948

“For him the Tao was the enlightened process of induction that led endlessly backwards into the past of civilization.”
― Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

“At the Washington Conference of 1921 far-reaching proposals for naval disarmament were made by the United States”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948

“In Arizona things didn’t rot”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“Payments which are only the arbitrary”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948

“Here were a mother and her daughter”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“She even found a picture of bean trees. “Well”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“All Germans had long been brought up under paternal despotism”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948

“The whore”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle

“After breakfast”
― Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

“And so the debate has limped on”
― Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

“Interesting to note that in the mid-2030s”
― Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

“The biographer at work”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“It is not a large world. Relatively even to this world of ours”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“But he regards the Court of Chancery”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Your mother”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“We discuss with our students the causes of this constancy in the language. There are various theories as to why we are at a virtual standstill. The department prefers the view that the past”
― Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

“From what I’d heard”
― Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

“The Bell Jar is a fictionalized account of Plath’s own breakdown and shock therapy and suicide attempt in 1953”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“He was very obliging”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House