Jabbers Quotes

#1. ART IS MADE BY ORDINARY PEOPLE. Creatures having only virtues can hardly be imagined making art. It's difficult to picture the Virgin Mary painting landscapes. Or Batman throwing pots. The flawless creature wouldn't need to make art.

David Bayles

#2. I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Evan Hunter

#3. The only time I have ever seen my father cry in my whole life was the day he watched JFK's funeral procession on television.

Margaret A. Salinger

#4. The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live ...

Henry Beston

#5. Just don't give him your everything - not until you know the return will be the same.

Rachel Van Dyken

#6. While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

Thomas Sowell

#7. Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use."
"And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Agatha Christie

#8. I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

Karen Allen

#9. And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

Thomas Hobbes

#10. He warned me that trade would open the door to greed and greed was an inconsiderate guest; it would bring its evil relations with it.

Laila Lalami

#11. Who ever told you a Chinaman was a coloured man?

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Pain is the price of power.

George R R Martin

#13. Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.

Kristen Schaal