Joe Karbo Quotes

#1. Bird of Wide Experience I

Michael Chabon

#2. They're all true. They all could have happened.

Ellen Sussman

#3. Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

Umberto Eco

#4. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

Seth Klarman

#6. I can't even find a pond small enough
to drown in without being ostentatious

Frank O'Hara

#7. That day, getting through my world was like trying to swim in a pool of warm mayonnaise while carrying two bowling balls.

Anonymous

#8. My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

Herbie Hancock

#9. I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Leo Kottke

#10. In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

Tadao Ando

#11. And all the shelves rising up around her like book-lined walls of a fortress, safe in here, always safe in here from the world, guarded by books and all the secrets inside them, all the things hardly anyone else will ever care to learn.

Caitlin R. Kiernan