Jonathan Strange Quotes

#1. I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

Lev Grossman

#2. In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.

Susanna Clarke

#3. 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.

Ann Leckie

#4. The phone conversations about a possible TV series of 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings.

Susanna Clarke

#5. But these people were judged very stupid by their friends. Was not Jonathan Strange known to be precisely the sort of whimsical, contradictory person who would publish against himself?

Susanna Clarke

#6. Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Jonathan Swift

#7. An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Jonathan Kozol

#8. When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

Jonathan Campbell

#9. The evil one knows where to attack. He is going to attack the home. He is going to destroy the family. That's what he wants to do ... Let us make up our minds he will not do it in our families

Spencer W. Kimball

#10. My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Jonathan Winters

#11. I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

Jonathan Swift

#12. Porn is in the eye of the beholder.

Adriano Bulla

#13. Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

#14. How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.

Jonathan Goldstein

#15. How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.

Jonathan Lethem

#16. If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud?

Robin Sharma

#17. After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

Susanna Clarke

#18. It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

Susanna Clarke

#19. I fished inside my head for something, some way to prove it. And those strange words floated to the surface of my need. In as clear a
voice as l could, l looked at Prospero and said, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Jonathan Maberry

#20. He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased."

Jonathan Swift

#21. Moses is our true founding father.

Bruce Feiler

#22. It strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. There are ladies present, and I was raised to believe that being naked in front of strange ladies is something reserved for special occasions.

Jonathan L. Howard

#24. Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#25. He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet ... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo ... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?

Agatha Christie

#26. For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them ... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

Jonathan Levine

#27. Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper, sailors, politicians, but not magicians. Our time is past.

Susanna Clarke

#28. Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

David Mitchell

#29. And to Conrad, it seemed as though he had entered some strange world beyond our own, where nothing was as it appears, and anything could be possible.

Jonathan Maberry

#30. In the last few months, he'd found himself prey to strange twinges that, after some research, he had discovered to be his conscience.

Jonathan L. Howard

#31. As the barman's hand rose from beneath the bar, Cabal was filled with a presentiment and a strange foreboding that he hadn't felt since the last time he'd watched the nightmare corpse city of R'lyeh rise, effulgent with the ineffable and fetid with fish, rise from the depths of the Pacific.

Jonathan L. Howard

#32. We're human beings ... We bleed, we cry, we wander. So I have no say who or what you should be.

Anonymous

#33. It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Jonathan Ive

#34. You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,
though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#35. What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Jonathan Lethem