Chalker Quotes & Sayings

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. — Jack L. Chalker

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together. — Debra Wilson

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. — Jack L. Chalker

Probably she was right 'i love her, I'm honest with my feelings' these are my problems not her.' Xavier left this note on the napkin with a pen he was offered to comment in suggestion book at Gloria Jeans. — M.H. Rakib

I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back (210) — Cormac McCarthy

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there. — Jack L. Chalker

And I almost said I love you. Instead I said nothing and you said nothing. — Daniel Handler

Tell your children your mother was a woman who, with all her multitude of shortcomings, was more ferocious than kind, more contentious than agreeable, more irate than placid; but who cherished her family above all else. — Kathleen Kent

You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform. — Jack L. Chalker

It is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it. — Jack L. Chalker

Decadence is wonderful. — Jack L. Chalker

Moving on is a gift you give yourself. — Joan Rivers

The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference. — Pearl Zhu

Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply.
"Don't curse him," I said softly. "Remember
he's only a machine, just an imperfect mirror of ourselves. We made him what he is
the disease, the cancer."
There was nothing else to say, because that left only cursing ourselves, and we were already cursed. — Jack L. Chalker

There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public. — Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey

The deeper your thoughts, the clearer your dreams. The clearer your dreams, the higher you fly. Decide to fly! — Israelmore Ayivor

Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while ... — Diane J. Reed

Phil and Jase hunt more than anyone else in the family and take hunting more seriously than the others, so Miss Kay totally understands how I feel once duck season starts. She has said more than once, "I sure hope I don't die during duck season because none of the men in the family would come to my funeral!" I have to say, she has good reason to be concerned. — Missy Robertson

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. — David Attenborough

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday. — Jack L. Chalker

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced. — F.H. Bradley

It's important to look neat and tidy and not be too flashily dressed. If you look untidy, you're considered to have an untidy mind - it's as simple as that! — Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money. — Jack L. Chalker

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. — Jack L. Chalker

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. — Jack L. Chalker

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office. — Jack L. Chalker

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. — Jack L. Chalker

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning. — Carl R. Rogers

I write novels and other things. — Jack L. Chalker