Jonathan's Quotes

#1. I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan's life is the love he feels for his sister.

Cassandra Clare

#2. We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.

Brian Henson

#3. What did you do to your throat?"
"Jonathan's dick had been down it, but I didn't say that.

C.D. Reiss

#4. You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

Stephen Daldry

#5. My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am.

Michael Pollan

#6. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.

Bram Stoker

#7. Jonathan's eyes closed, and he went quickly into a sleep, with his head on my shoulder.

Bram Stoker

#8. Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.

Kema Chikwe

#9. Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that brings the songs, and it's the songs that heal the hurt. Jonathan's songs bring us there, and back. Check this record out, it's a good 'un.

Mary Gauthier

#10. A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe ...

Richard Bach

#11. I'm about five seconds away from going to kick Jonathan's mom's ass, and then kicking her mom's ass afterward to teach them both a lesson.

Mariana Zapata

#12. It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. When I was 22, I finally reached that huge goal. Now I'm going for another one. It's so satisfying. It's something that I worked for for so long, and just to know that I got it feels so great.

Jonathan Horton

#14. You can think of me thinking of you, because that's what I'll be doing whenever you think of me.

Jonathan Franzen

#15. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

#16. Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

Jonathan Ive

#17. No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Jonathan Harnisch

#18. I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#19. It was Andreas's gift, maybe his greatest, to find singular

Jonathan Franzen

#20. It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Jonathan Franzen

#21. Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

Jonathan Carroll

#22. there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.

Jonathan Evison

#24. Tell me what you wish for, and if it's any part of my body, your wish will come true at the Regency Hotel in forty minutes." She'd giggled and turned her face to the sunlight. "Free, Jonathan. I wish to be free.

C.D. Reiss

#25. Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.

Jonathan Ive

#26. If get a jump right, there's a feeling of flying.

Jonathan Edwards

#27. As if sustained and too-direct contact with time's raw passage could scar the nerves permanently, like staring at the sun.

Jonathan Franzen

#28. The effectance motive helps explain the progress principle: We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, Joy's soul lies in the doing.

Jonathan Haidt

#29. It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

Jonathan Horton

#30. In that brief kiss, Arthur's demigod had abandoned him.

Jonathan Dunne

#31. I - though forced through lack of space to assume the form of a stoic guinea pig crouched between the girl's shoe and the glove compartment - was my usual dignified self.

Jonathan Stroud

#32. Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain
same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Jonathan Lethem

#33. I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

Jonathan Lethem

#34. Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#35. It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Jonathan Franzen

#36. When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'

Toby Emmerich

#37. There are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself.

Jonathan Franzen

#38. Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.

Jonathan V. Last

#39. Why do we live in a time where we only say what we feel when it's too late? We have evolved. We can split atoms and cure diseases and travel to other planets. Yet we can't say how we feel. We can't tell one another who we really are and be accepted for it.

M. Jonathan Lee

#40. Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down.

Jonathan Gash

#41. Rape is, to me, no different than murder. It kills a part of the victim's soul.

Jonathan Maberry

#42. In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

Jonathan Swift

#43. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. soothing: re-press of an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived, and her husband Alexandre Lagoya, pairing on Debussy's "Clair de Lune.

Jonathan Kellerman

#45. I recall when this place was a good 'n honest community hall with a great sense of place and pride but now it's just a hall and fuck the community.

Jonathan Dunne

#46. It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#47. George,' I croaked, 'are you okay?'
'No. Someone's buttocks are flattening my foot.'
I shifted my position irritably.

Jonathan Stroud

#48. My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#49. When Tony lost it, it would be up to Ruger to take Lady Death by the tits and giver a good tweak. That's how he saw it. Give Lady Death's tits a good tweak.

Jonathan Maberry

#50. I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

Jonathan Lethem

#51. Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.

Jonathan Gottschall

#52. No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Jonathan Kozol

#53. What would you like to do today?" he says. She gives him a funny look. "What are my options?" "Sky's the limit." She considers it for a moment. "Brunch?" "I say the sky's the limit and all you can come up with is brunch?" "I'm just not sure we live under the same sky.

Jonathan Tropper

#54. I remember getting a Phoenix Suns T-shirt. I had that Phoenix Suns T-shirt forever. It's the funny things you remember as a kid, but it was a blast.

Jonathan Lipnicki

#55. Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

Jonathan Sacks

#56. I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#57. exemplified the dull rigidity of Singapore's old colonial fantasies about itself.

Jonathan Lethem

#58. Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.

Jonathan Sadowski

#59. I'm sorry, Miraculous One, it's difficult to think of new titles for you when you ask short questions.

Jonathan Stroud

#60. Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe

Madelon Phillips

#61. You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

Jonathan Tucker

#62. It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

Natalie Massenet

#63. Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

Jonathan Adler

#64. Leo Tolstoy wrote: "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."19

Jonathan Haidt

#65. I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy ... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

Jonathan Winters

#66. Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.

Jonathan Stroud

#67. There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.

Jonathan Turley

#68. I wanted not the favor of man to lean upon; for I knew Christ's favor was infinitely better, and that it was no matter when, nor where, nor how Christ should send me, nor what trials He should still exercise me with, if I might be prepared for His work and will.

Jonathan Edwards

#69. Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL

Jonathan Safran Foer

#70. But most people will draw their own conclusions on learning that the dictator's official name, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, translates as 'the cock who goes from hen to hen knowing no fatigue'.

Jonathan Margolis

#71. Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.

Jonathan Miller

#72. It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#73. That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Jonathan Jackson

#74. You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#75. Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Jonathan Raban

#76. If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?

Jonathan Edwards

#77. Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?"
"I don't know."
"I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

Jonathan Franzen

#78. Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Jonathan Swift

#79. For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

Jonathan Lethem

#80. I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

Jonathan Demme

#81. There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

Jonathan Tropper

#82. A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

Bertrand Piccard

#83. You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

Ted Demme

#84. Death is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#85. I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

Jonathan Franzen

#86. I began to enjoy myself: being apoplectic's quite invigorating.

Jonathan Gash

#87. The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

Jonathan Stroud

#88. As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

Jonathan Gold

#89. The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

Jonathan Zittrain

#90. You are going to beat it, even if it takes a very long time. Tulia always says that big forests are cleared the same way as small forests, but it just takes longer. I know this thing inside you is a big forest, but it's going to come down eventually. I know it." Her

Jonathan Renshaw

#91. There's hardly anybody who doesn't hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn't hate.

Jonathan Franzen

#92. Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

Jonathan Meades

#93. Evolution is a design process; it's just not an intelligent design process.

Jonathan Haidt

#94. 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

#95. The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming
and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

Jonathan Cain

#96. It's so simple to fall in love but it's such a struggle to find true love.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#97. The supreme religious challenge is to see God's image in one who is not in our image.

Jonathan Sacks

#98. Penelope Fittes - " "Has got nothing whatsoever to do with it, as you well know. It was Lockwood who came knocking on your door, and that's why you considered the proposal, and let's face it, that's why you said yes.

Jonathan Stroud

#99. The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject.

Jonathan Tropper

#100. Come, agree, the law's costly.

Jonathan Swift