At Swim Two Birds Quotes

#1. One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

John Barth

#2. Like many of my fellow preachers I acknowledge that my best and severest critic is my wife.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#3. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

C.S. Lewis

#4. I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.

Herman Melville

#5. Ask the missionaries, they can help you

Russell M. Nelson

#6. She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

John Green

#7. I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

John Wayne

#8. You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

Paul Guilfoyle