Joseph Erhardt > Joseph's Quotes

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
― Winston Churchill

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“Never tell the truth about an amateur show.”
― Leslie McFarlane

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

“Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found...
That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year....
Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

“Darkness is patient, always waiting for its chance, and swift to take it.”
― Mark Lawrence, Road Brothers

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
― Shelby Foote

“Books don't need batteries.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit -- not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.”
― William S. Burroughs

“I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
― William S. Burroughs

“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

“Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
― Amelia E. Barr

“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”
― E.B. White

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.”
― Ian McDonald, River of Gods