Easterby Jack Quotes & Sayings

So LISTEN UP, class! Today we're going to learn all about chain reactions. — James Patterson

Like old married people who no longer have anything in common, to do or to talk about, save the same general weight of air to displace and breathe and general oblivious biding earth to bear their weight ... — William Faulkner

(from Diana to Deborah, 8 May 1998)
Talking of language difficulty Tony Lambton says Selwyn Lloyd introduced him to Khrushchev saying 'He's the best shot in England,' and the translator said 'Lord Lambton is to be shot tomorrow.' Khrushchev thought it quite normal but patted him on the shoulder kindly. — Charlotte Mosley

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. — Robin Williams

The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls
their looks, their clothes, their social life
do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few. — Elisabeth Elliot

A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie. — Joe Blow

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. — Iain Duncan Smith

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story. — Ron Carlson

We walk around like a photograph that my dad's been cut out of. — Kendare Blake

You're in the lights and he thinks you're exposed, he's in the dark and he thinks he's hidden. But he's not hidden, he's dead, and you're not exposed, you're alive. — Steve Erickson

The journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, that can definitely seem like such a strange, extractive relationship. — Sarah Stillman

Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive. — Stewart Butterfield

Tyler wrote:
Dearest Marguerite:
You've taught me a great deal about stillness. About the many things that can drift into your mind and heart when you shut down the barricades created by noise. Unexpected gifts of insight, revelation and wisdom. < ... >
But you taught me that love is found in stillness. It is the space between objects. It's the star you can't see if you look directly at it in the night sky, but if you look away, look forward, you see it in your peripheral vision, beside you, watching over you. If you lie down on the earth it's there, beneath you, cradling you.< ... >
You're my angel, my tormentor, my woman, my love.
God, Tyler is such a gentleman! He is gentle AND a gentleman. — Joey W. Hill

There's a carcass composed entirely of sexual tension lying abandoned on the couch. I wonder if she can see it, too. — Christina Lauren

Going to fetch Uncle Analdas. Have you been by the Hill?"
Just left there," Robin answered. "Everybody's excited. Seems there's new Folks coming."
Yes, I know," cried Little Georgie eagerly. "I've just made a song about it. Wouldn't you like to hear it? It goes like -"
No, thanks," called Robin. — Robert Lawson