Jabbok Book Quotes

#1. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

John Keegan

#3. Beware of anything to do with President Obama ... I speak from experience.

Steven Magee

#4. People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

Randy Bachman

#5. You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Margaret Atwood

#6. It was almost habit now for me to seek her out whenever I heard her singing - her voice was my only respite. The one moment in the day when I allowed myself to forget the growing pressures of my life. The one moment when I allowed myself to forget who I was.

Danielle L. Jensen

#7. Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#8. I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

Gary Cole

#9. Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.

Tom Rath