Goobleys Quotes & Sayings

Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions. — The New Yorker

Fortunately perfection is not a requirement for creating great relationships. — John Gray

He had been working at the wall for too long. Why he bothered the Lord only knew. After all, it went nowhere and closed in nothing. His grandfather had been a master waller in the dale, but the skill had not been passed down the generations. He supposed he liked is for the same reason he liked fishing: mindless relaxation. In an age of totalitarian utilitarianism, Gristhorpe thought, a man needs as much purposeless activity as he can find. — Peter Robinson

When it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure, it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you. — Larry Sultan

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down ... — Terry Pratchett

Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most. — Jay Asher

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dark and drear, fear and weep
Are the spots where the Goobleys crawl and keep
And their minds are small if they have them at all
And their eyes are BIG!!! — Craig Herbertson

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs. — Augusten Burroughs

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons. — Marsha Sinetar

It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules. — Frederick Lenz