Mobby Quotes & Sayings

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. — Edgar Allan Poe

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow
less likely to happen. — Emily Giffin

Even if you did drop into someone's consciousness, you'd have all their memories and desires and hang-ups right there in front of you. And as you say, in an eternity you'd get the chance to know everything once enough time had passed. You'd become unable to judge anyone.' 'You'd end up being completely compassionate,' I said. 'You wouldn't be able to judge someone once you understood them and their motivations. You'd become them, like Rowan said, and so it would be like judging yourself. — Scarlett Thomas

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is. — David Duchovny

Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal. — Rupert Grint

My mamma and I have interesting literary discussions like the following which took place over some Modern Library books that I had just ordered:
SHE: "Mobby Dick. I've always heard about that."
ME: "Mow-by Dick."
SHE: "Mow-by Dick. The Idiot. You would get something called Idiot. What's it about?"
ME: "An idiot. — Flannery O'Connor

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it. — Anne Lamott

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world
an assigned parking space. — Gene Perret

Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body. — Jean Nidetch

What I call loaded, I'm not. What other people call loaded I am. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby. — David Ogilvy

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway. — George Foreman

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy. — Frederick Lenz

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. — Barbara Ehrenreich