David Jo Quotes

#1. The absurd man is he who never changes.

Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

#2. Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo

#3. No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

Franz Grillparzer

#4. The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

Lawrence Kasdan

#5. If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.

James Surowiecki

#7. David was holding Mona steady. I hoped he also had a little attention to spare to keep us unnoticed from the ground; seeing a Dodge Viper do a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the desert sky might be a little hard to explain, even for UFO nuts.

Rachel Caine

#8. Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#9. When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

Nicholas Sparks

#10. It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it's equally possible that he's simply a bored creep looking for a cheap thrill.

Jon Ronson

#11. I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

Michael Keaton

#12. I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

Bill Nighy

#13. Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think ill of any parent whose aspirations were lower.) The rub is that the best schools tend to be located in more expensive neighborhoods.

Bob Frank

#14. I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

Seth Grahame-Smith