Dr Bob Muppets Quotes & Sayings

The twenty-first chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. — Anthony Burgess

I learned that every tree fights for sunlight in the canopy, but this happens so slowly that the combat looks like peace. — J.M. McDermott

(K)ids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don't flinch from the truth. — Brendan McGinley

If you brought me out driving just so you could insult me-"
"Oh, not just to insult you. — Patricia C. Wrede

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live — Marcel Duchamp

I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you. — Rob McKenna

Having shot down a number, some of which were anly wounded, the whole flock swept repeatedly around their prostrate companions, and again settled on a low tree, within twenty yards of the spot where I stood. At each successive discharge, though showers of them fell, yet the affection of the survivors seemed rather to increase; for after a few circuits around the place, they again alighted near me. — Ron Rash

What is privacy if not for invading? — Quentin Crisp

I sank into a chair and mopped the frontal bone. Not for many a long day had I been in such a doodah — P.G. Wodehouse

The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' — Timothy Noah