Alobar Quotes

#1. Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

Tom Robbins

#2. Kudra was amused by Alobar's tentative polka until her eyes fell upon the tumescent protrusion dancing with him. Disgusting she thought. An erection is just inappropriate. Then she realized with a shock that she was so wet that children could have sailed toy boats in her underpants.

Tom Robbins

#3. The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

Tom Robbins

#4. I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.

Jane Green

#5. Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Lorenz Hart

#6. A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Wallace Stegner

#7. Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

Jerry Costello

#8. Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Marlon Brando

#9. What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

Charles Studd

#10. You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Denis Diderot

#12. I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do
I had to let something go.

Jane Wagner

#13. We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

Donald L. Hicks

#14. You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Judith Guest

#16. I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

Sue Grafton

#17. your character is the sum total of your habits. You can't claim to be kind unless you are habitually kind - you show kindness without even thinking about it. You can't claim to have integrity unless it is your habit to always be honest.

Rick Warren