Janek Kroupa Quotes & Sayings

If a blackbird had your brains he'd fly backwards. — Frederick Manfred

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge. — Vikram Seth

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath. — Sarah Vowell

I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. — Markus Zusak

I'm like a toy to her, a toy that someone has promised her. Maybe not her favorite, but still hers. — Nicole Gulla

Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited. — Matthew Bonifacio

I think it's safe to say the caca has hit the rotator! Yes? — T.J. Reeder

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further. — Charlie Trotter

You cannot be in love with someone you've really only known for barely a week and on top of that someone who drives you crazy most of the time. No matter how goodlooking and charming and interesting and understanding he may be. Not even if he's the one person who makes you feel like yourself.
Right? — Hannah Harrington

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture? — Jonathan Franzen

Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic. — Warren Buffett

I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig! — Terry Pratchett

We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates. — Jean-Claude Juncker

I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling. — Joss Stirling

I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. — Rudyard Kipling