Jawless Quotes & Sayings

I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

A few days after my new state occupied my village, I became a prisoner of war rather than a citizen. — Noam Chomsky

Yet, til now, her discipline had less to do with her strict Catholic upbringing than the fact that she hadn't met anybody who had aroused her to the point where she felt it was worth risking purgatory. — Cynthia Freeman

The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle. — Stephen King

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition. — George MacDonald

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche

207. He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk. — Anonymous

Friendship is something that is cultivated. — Thalia

Oatmeal Face, Jawless, and the other revenants dragged me out of the van by the zip tie between my hands. The sharp plastic bit painfully into my wrists.
"All right, all right, I'm coming," I said. "Keep your faces on."
There was no reaction from any of them. Humor was wasted on the dead. — Nicholas Kaufmann

Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it. — Lita Burke

Being safe is fiction. — Tom Hodgkinson

May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times? — Charles Darwin

Maybe I'm just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it. — Ai Yazawa

I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end ... — Rawi Hage

Her only flair is in her nostrils. — Pauline Kael