Jittery Jack Quotes

#1. The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

#2. The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another

Elizabeth Bear

#3. A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#4. Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

Wynton Marsalis

#5. The dead don't die. They look on and help.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. As long as I do not give in to tension,
I hold on to tension.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
August 18, 2016

Petra Hermans

#7. I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said.

David Walton

#8. Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Ariel Gore

#9. If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

David Attenborough

#10. Blame is the cowards way out.

Elvin Hayes

#11. They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

John Muir

#12. No home-cooked food, no matter how delicious, can match the power of bringing people together in misty-eyed recollection of industrially produced food.

Bee Wilson