Joublie Quotes & Sayings

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it. — Sara Sheridan

You know you've got a problem when baristas greet you by name. You know you've got another problem when it's the warmest social interaction of your day. — Lee Nichols

There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love. — Jay Woodman

For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during approximately the last 21 years with the greatest care and with very accurate instruments at a more mature age, until I was fifty years of age, those I call the observations of my manhood, completely valid and absolutely certain, and this is my opinion of them. — Tycho Brahe

Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we dont see her much on the political landscape in this country, shes kind of disappeared and she doesnt speak out much anymore. — Jonathan Coe

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. — Frederick Pollock