J. > J.'s Quotes

“For though my rhyme be ragged,
Tattered and jagged,
Rudely rain-beaten,
Rusty and moth-eaten,
If ye take well therewith,
It hath in it some pith.

- THE PRELATES from "Colin Clout"”
― John Skelton, Complete Poems

“I leave off therefore,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.”
― Sir Thomas Wyatt

“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
― Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel And Stella

“I now have learn’d Love right, and learn’d even so,
As who by being poisoned doth poison know.”
― Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel And Stella

“First draft blues:
"He tested the stick and glanced at the set handbrake. With his feet he felt the accelerator, the brake, the clutch. Backwards, but otherwise just the same, and comforting in a solid, mechanical way. It even smelled right, oil, petrol, lubricated warm metal, and the polished windshield seemed transparent in the night’s silver flood.”
― J. Gunnar Grey, Deal With the Devil, Part One

“Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“So even if you got it loaded it could not be anything more than a study in still-life until you took the jacks away, and then the scrap metal wouldn't be funny.”
― Paul Brickhill, The Dam Busters