Jen Talbot Quotes & Sayings

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer

The French don't snack. They will tear off the endo of a fres baguette (which, if it's warm, it's practically impossible to resist) and eat it as they leave the boulangerie. And that's usually all you will see being consumed on the street. Compare that with the public eating and drinking that goes on in America: pizza, hot dogs, nachos, tacos, heroes, potato chips, sandwiches, jerricans of coffee, half-gallon buckets of Coke (Diet, of cours) and heaven knows what else being demolished on the hoof, often on the way to the aerobic class. — Peter Mayle

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad. — Linda Sue Park

I can't begin to guess her story, except that there were undoubtedly two times or three, when what had happened to her was grievously at odds with what she had expected - so grievously at odds that any return to the faith or the patterns of the time before the event became impossible. — Deirdre McNamer

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor. — Simon Baker

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it. — Dawn French

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however."
"My apologies to your horse. — David Eddings

Ownership means once I detect a problem I own it. I am responsible for it. — Jeffrey K. Liker

It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.
Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker. — Holly Black

I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way. — Jamie Mason

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. — C.S. Lewis

Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex. — Barbara Walters