Jon Richardson Quotes

#1. I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection

Jon Richardson

#2. [On setting all clocks at varying times in advance...]
A selfless gesture on my part which ensures I am never late, but really only means that I spend time waiting not only for people who are late but also for people who are on time.

Jon Richardson

#3. Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

Jon Richardson

#4. Those are the little seed-producing flowers, and the long catkins, they only produce pollen, to fertilise them.' 'Do they, do they!' repeated Hermione, looking closely. 'From those little red bits, the nuts come; if they receive pollen from the long danglers.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

William Eggleston

#6. It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.

Sarah Swainson

#7. I don't really talk to people.

Jon Richardson

#8. There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.

Jon Richardson

#9. I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.

Jon Richardson

#10. Stephen shrugged. "Yeah. Well. I said I would."
"Ah. Are we having issues?"
"This feels sleazy."
"I promise I'll respect you in the morning.

Tana French

#11. Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

Yuri Balashov

#12. There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

Richard Dawkins

#13. I believe passionately in love, I even believe in 'the one' to a certain exert, but I am willing to play the waiting game and patiently await their arrival rather than dive into relationships I know not to be right in the mean time.

Jon Richardson

#14. Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

Alveda King

#15. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lew Wallace

#16. My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

Brittany Howard

#17. Somehow, happiness is not diminished by being shared out with other people.

Jon Richardson

#18. I don't need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.

Jon Richardson

#19. Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

Ming-Dao Deng

#20. Such is my desire only to see the best parts of my partner and vice-versa that I must confess to being able to remember each time I have seen someone I was in love with fall over. I cannot help but be disappointed by such a shocking inability to perform such a simple task as staying upright.

Jon Richardson

#21. I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

Jon Richardson

#22. I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.

Jon Richardson

#23. The test of total independence comes each night when the bedroom door closes behind you, the lights go out and all that there is to keep you company in the infinite darkness are your thoughts.

Jon Richardson

#24. I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.

Jon Richardson

#25. During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Anatoly Chubais

#26. The best dating advice I can give you is that women like men who aren't weird

Jon Richardson

#27. I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON

Jon Gruden

#28. My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

Jon Richardson

#29. It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

Jon Richardson

#30. It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt.

Jon Richardson

#32. Oz lists the hem of his shirt, exposing his cut abs, and wipes his brow with the material. Oh my with chocolate on top. That was just beautiful.

Katie McGarry

#33. Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both.

Jon Richardson