Garth's Quotes

#1. Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

Colleen Chen

#2. Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass?

Mat Johnson

#3. What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children
oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is.

Benjamin Harrison

#4. These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our

George Eliot

#5. It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.

Garth Brooks

#6. In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery - a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. (C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!

Garth Stein

#8. Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

Garth Hudson

#10. In a blacked-out house, stripped of all comforts, it's easy to turn your anger outward, to attack this city he's lying at the center of, with its filth and its pollution and its oppression, but really, New York is the only thing that's never abandoned him.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#11. I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

Garth Brooks

#12. To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Chris LeDoux

#13. Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.

Garth Brooks

#14. An' you turn your back on your friend, you may as well go ahead an' join the asshole squad, 'cause you just became one more reason why the damn world's gone to hell.

Garth Ennis

#15. Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.

Cameron Mathison

#16. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

Nayvadius Cash

#17. Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

Garth Ennis

#18. If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along ... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

Garth Nix

#19. When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with,' William said.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#20. I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#21. A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

Garth Brooks

#22. A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

Garth Brooks

#23. Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

Teddy Thompson

#24. It's always better to be doing.

Garth Nix

#25. In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#26. At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#27. Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#28. So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.

Garth Stein

#29. I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

Jennie Garth

#30. I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. (I mean, other than a tapeworm, which I've had. That doesn't count as another life, really. That's a parasite and should never have been there in the first place.)

Garth Stein

#31. Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.

Garth Brooks

#32. People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Garth Brooks

#33. After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.

Garth Ennis

#34. Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#35. Dude, are you like English or something--?

Yeah, That's right, dude. I'm like English.

Garth Ennis

#36. He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned.

Garth Nix

#37. When the dead do walk seek water's run,
for this the Dead will always shun.
Swift river's best or broadest lake
to ward the dead and have and make.
If water fails thee, fire's thy friend,
if neither guards it will be thy end.

Garth Nix

#38. watch William's beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narratively intelligible, than a flea circus, so he got up and went to the kitchenette to do the other stations of the Yuletide cross.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#39. This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.'
'What is it for?'
'It isn't for anything. It's a toy.'
'It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it.

Garth Nix

#40. Mogget's voice. Sam whirled around. "Mogget? Is that you? Where are you?" "Here, and regretting it as per usual," replied Mogget, and a small white cat sauntered out from behind a fern tree.

Garth Nix

#41. Fuck, that's good. That's habit-formin'.

Garth Ennis

#42. You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie?

Garth Stein

#43. Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#44. Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#45. I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

Jennie Garth

#46. The dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows and the dreamer just a vessel that must follow where it goes. We must lean from what's behind us never knowing what's in store keeps each day a contant battle just to stay between the shore

Garth Brooks

#47. This isn't Soviet Russia. This is America we're talking about. For God's sake, this is New York City.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#48. If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

Garth Brooks

#49. I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.

Garth Ennis

#50. Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock!

Garth Ennis

#51. Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

Garth Brooks

#52. Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. "Enzo"
I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. "Enzo

Garth Stein

#53. I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Garth Risk Hallberg

#54. When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin, things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.

Garth Ennis

#55. My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Jennie Garth

#56. I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

Garth Risk Hallberg

#57. He's moving with such purpose that William is scared he might just speed right off the rooftop, like the roadrunner from the cartoons. Or (the image comes with Magritteish lucidity) spread his arms and flap up into another life.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#58. I've always felt almost human. I've always known that there's something about me that's different than other dogs. Sure, I'm stuffed into a dog's body, but that's just the shell. It's what's inside that's important. The soul. And my soul is very human.

Garth Stein

#59. What's too late?" asked Mogget. "Hold

Garth Nix

#60. Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

Jake Owen

#61. Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#62. ...so I looked at this kid from West Texas, feelin' all cut up an' betrayed 'cause he suddenly realized the Land of the Free been fuckin' him in the ass all his life--an' I told myself, 'Shit, so that's what it's like to be the white boy. Any nigga you ask can tell you that's how America works.

Garth Ennis

#63. Did you really think I'd steer you wrong?" Then William pointed to the wide-open country beyond the next ridge. "New York's that way. My compass is unerring.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#64. Dreams can come true with God's great angels like you.

Garth Brooks

#65. Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

Garth Greenwell

#66. Mercer didn't know, but Lost Illusions was one of his personal favorites. Basically, a young poet from the provinces comes to Paris to make his fortune and, in the fullness of time, discovers that he's been wrong about everything. All the people he takes for geniuses are idiots, and vice versa.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#67. My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up.

Jennie Garth

#68. It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

Garth Brooks

#69. But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

Garth Brooks

#70. As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.

Garth Nix

#71. One thing I did learn early on was not to put all my trust in magic. If it can be done without magic, it's better done without magic.

Garth Nix

#72. I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

Garth Greenwell

#73. You know a dream is like a river
Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores.

Garth Brooks

#74. Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#75. There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.

Garth Nix

#76. It's a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#77. The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't have that person, he locks himself away. He tells himself no one could possibly love him, but really, it's that he refuses to love anyone else.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#78. But I guess what I would want to leave each of you with finally -- tender some Evidence of, against a life's worth of signs to the contrary -- comes down simply to this: You are infinite. I see you. You are not alone.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#79. Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker!

Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a lot of dick on the goddamn menu! Now grunt twice for yes! You through bitchin'?

Garth Ennis

#80. I get more things wrong than I get right, but there's one thing I'm really damn good at, and that's loving you. I've loved you most of my whole life. Will you give me permission to love you the rest of it too?

Nicole Williams

#81. Have you seen The Man Who Fell to Earth?" Charlie's face was hot, his asthma tightening his throat. "I realize that maybe sounds like a metaphor, but you listen to David Bowie, he's thinking about what people will face in the future.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#82. He is so brilliant. He shines. He's beautiful with his hands that grab things and his tongue that says things and the way he stands and chews his food for so long, mashing it into a paste before he swallows.

Garth Stein

#83. The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#84. You can't know what's going to happen before it happens.

Garth Stein

#85. ..."ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad.

Garth Ennis

#86. Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

Garth Greenwell

#87. We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

Garth Brooks

#88. When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennie Garth

#89. I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

Garth Stein

#90. We were both satellites orbiting Denny's sun, struggling for gravitational supremacy. Of course, she had the advantage of her tongue and her thumbs, and when I watched her kiss and fondle him sometimes she would glance at me and wink as if to gloat: Look at my thumbs! See what they can do!

Garth Stein

#91. It's you I'm concerned about. You are letting your fear come between you and getting better.

Garth Nix

#92. You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

Garth Brooks

#93. There's two dates in time
That they'll carve on your stone
And everyone knows what they mean
What's more important
Is the time that is known
In that little dash there in between
That little dash there in between

Garth Brooks

#94. That's all care is, I thought, it's just looking at a thing long enough, why should it be a question of scale? This seemed like a hopeful thought at first, but then it's hard to look at things, or to look at them truly, and we can't look at many at once, and it's so easy to look away.

Garth Greenwell

#95. It was like someone far away calling someone else's name.

Garth Nix

#96. People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

Garth Stein

#97. If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Garth Brooks

#98. I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.

Garth Ennis

#99. I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience ... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body ... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.

Garth Stein

#100. That's the place where the books are made, I thought. That's also where Allen Ginsberg offered a friend of mine a Fig Newton outside a deli in the East Village. By the time I first came to New York, I was already half in love.

Garth Risk Hallberg