Jonny Drubel Quotes & Sayings

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something? — Chris Cleave

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters. — Ray Bradbury

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. — Tobias Wolff

Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score. — Charles Dickens

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you. — Diane Samuels

What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image. Artists and philosophers not only show us what we have felt, they present our experiences more poignantly and intelligently than we have been able; they give shape to aspects of our lives that we recognise as our own, yet could never have understood so clearly on our own. They explain our condition to us, and thereby help us to be less lonely with, and confused by it. — Alain De Botton

It's your gold they love, not your impish wit. — George R R Martin

For some reason, the Secret Service revealed this, that Sarah Palin's Secret Service code name is 'Denali.' Turns out 'Denali' is an old Eskimo name that means 'Dan Quayle.' — Jay Leno

This world, it breathes you in, sniffs, it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you. You're not contained here in this single place alone. The wind, time, it circles, repeats, teaches, reveals, some swaths cutting deeper than others. The universe knows. The universe has a long memory. — Mary E. Pearson

For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting: it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss: devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour. — Charlotte Bronte

You don't just fit into my world, Blythe. You are my world — Abbi Glines

Even savage animals can agree among themselves. — Juvenal

Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry. — Carl Sagan

Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight. — Mary E. Pearson

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all. — Armand Assante