Jerabek Quotes & Sayings

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. — Cassandra Clare

When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies — Tom Standage

Composers were warned not to strain the attention of their audience, as though we had not at our disposal different degrees of attention, among which it rests precisely with the artist himself to arouse the highest. For those who yawn with boredom after ten lines of a mediocre article have journeyed year after year to Bayreuth to listen to the Ring. — Marcel Proust

In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous. — Melvin Laird

Read two old books for every new one. — J.I. Packer

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
too full for sound or foam,
when that which drew from out
the boundless deep
turns again home. — Alfred Tennyson

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs. — William Allen White

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity. — Mark Tobey

No, Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.'
Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us. — Suzanne Collins