Joostens Quotes & Sayings

You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually. — Eoin Colfer

Every socialist wishes to revolutionize society from the economic angle and all the blessings he expects are to come through a change in economic institutions. This of course implies a theory about social causation - the theory that the economic pattern is the really operative element in the sum total of the phenomena that we call society. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?' — John Sayles

I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey

Life is a void, an emptiness; it began with nothing and ends with nothing. — Debasish Mridha

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude. — Lou Reed

weigh the scale. I'd say — Nora Roberts

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement. — B.F. Skinner

This moment is complete unto itself. There's nothing lacking in this moment — Steve Hagen

You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially. — Jayson Werth

The jinni sighed. 'I'm less grateful to him than I should be. He's a good and generous man, but I'm not accustomed to relying on someone else. It makes me feel weak.'
'How is relying on others a weakness?'
'How can it be anything else? If for some reason Arbeely died tomorrow, I'd be forced to find another occupation. The event would be outside my control, yet I'd be at its mercy. Is that not weakness?'
'I suppose. But then, going by your standard, everyone is weak. So why call it a weakness, instead of just the way things are? — Helene Wecker

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head. — Brian Selznick

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Patience Pays..Is true!
But the greater truth is that it takes
advance payment before it pays you in return! — Sujit Lalwani