Joash Box Quotes & Sayings

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything. — Heidi Julavits

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing. — Frank Zappa

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports. — John Hodgman

How? How did you know ... ?
What, that my wife can do anything? Isn't it obvious? — Brian K. Vaughan

The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew. — Alan Dale

We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch. — Alastair Reynolds

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. — Al Spalding

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. — Norbert Wiener

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of. — John Cleese