Essrog Quotes

#1. Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

Gary Krist

#2. Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

Jonathan Lethem

#3. I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.

Burn Gorman

#4. Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

John C. Maxwell

#5. If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while.

Jay Woodman

#6. No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.

Hal Elrod

#7. The Pesky Prince

Drae Box

#8. Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

Mark Twain

#9. Such heinous acts could superstition prompt.12

Titus Lucretius Carus

#10. When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. Whoever desires is always poor.

Claudius Claudianus

#13. We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

Benjamin Disraeli

#14. He gripped her hips tightly. "I need you," he whispered, and her heart pounded in answer.
She rose up over him and slowly settled onto his erection, moaning as each inch of him filled her, enjoying every second.
"Made for me," he growled beneath her.

Lisa Kessler

#15. It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.

Michael Jordan

#16. Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.

Michel Faber