Shocked Grandmothers Quotes

#1. Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

Libba Bray

#4. Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself.

Jonathan Lethem

#5. When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.

George Vecsey

#6. One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Robyn Hitchcock

#7. Thomas More syas that the imperial troops, for their enjoyment, are roasting live babies on spits. Oh, he would! says Thomas Cromwell. Listen, soldiers don't do that. They're too busy carrying away everything they can turn into ready money.

Hilary Mantel