Jonathan Ames quote: "I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen."

Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's...
JONATHAN AMES

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort...
JONATHAN AMES

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.
JONATHAN AMES

I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do tha...
JONATHAN AMES

(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.
JONATHAN AMES

By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'...
JONATHAN AMES

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some ki...
JONATHAN AMES

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of...
JONATHAN AMES

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and...
JONATHAN AMES

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I w...
JONATHAN AMES

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existe...
JONATHAN AMES

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few...
JONATHAN AMES

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to ...
JONATHAN AMES

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant ...
FISHER AMES

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
FISHER AMES

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produ...
FISHER AMES

Man is by nature a political animal.
FISHER AMES

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
FISHER AMES

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be l...
FISHER AMES

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer...
FISHER AMES

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any wort...
ALDRICH AMES

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more...
ALDRICH AMES

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming in...
ALDRICH AMES

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the...
ALDRICH AMES

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to ...
ALDRICH AMES

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that yo...
ALDRICH AMES

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
ALDRICH AMES

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of...
ALDRICH AMES

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified i...
ALDRICH AMES

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a mach...
ALDRICH AMES

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for ...
WILLIAM AMES

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a...
ALDRICH AMES

We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to com...
BRETT AMES

We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as well as ...
BRETT AMES

The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity an...
BRETT AMES

We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you ma...
BRETT AMES

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is th...
WILLIAM AMES

We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous. A lot of those idea...
GARY AMES

We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous, ... A lot of those ...
GARY AMES

One of the advantages to the new plant was that we've promoted people and moved them down there for ...
GARY AMES

A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their drivew...
GARY AMES

I was really happy with what the divers did all year long. The diving competition was more of a rela...
JOHN AMES

Well, it's the farm's pickup,
JOHN AMES

It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.
JOHN AMES

Everything happened so fast, ... There were no conscious thoughts.
JOHN AMES

We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional.
JOHN AMES

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away
FISHER AMES

[I]f these [new] books ... must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place ...
FISHER AMES

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to som...
WILLIAM AMES

We worked on a few things that we've been working on from the British Open onwards with the swing, ....
STEPHEN AMES

Except for the 10th hole, I played a flawless round. It felt like a walk in the park.
STEPHEN AMES

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
WILLIAM AMES

Hearing here, therefore, means any receiving of the word of God whether it be communicated to us by ...
WILLIAM AMES

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act whic...
WILLIAM AMES

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will ...
WILLIAM AMES

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may ...
WILLIAM AMES

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and ...
WILLIAM AMES

But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God tho...
WILLIAM AMES

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only...
WILLIAM AMES

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and la...
WILLIAM AMES

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object a...
WILLIAM AMES

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not...
ALDRICH AMES

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his h...
ALDRICH AMES

It was only a five-iron. It wasn't a three-iron or two-iron. I hit the shot exactly how I pictured i...
STEPHEN AMES

I'm going have a different approach to Augusta now. I'm going to be looking forward to see ? with my...
STEPHEN AMES

I played well. I was very comfortable with my setup, how I was hitting it, and it was just a matter ...
STEPHEN AMES

I was heartbroken when I found out.
JENNI AMES

The greens are actually firmer than the fairways.
STEPHEN AMES

My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs.
TRACY AMES

You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at ...
STEPHEN AMES

My kids are on spring break and this was scheduled as a two-week vacation. The Masters, obviously, w...
STEPHEN AMES

Sixth hole, Tiger's up by the green waiting. I told him, 'Sorry it took so long, but I was 120 yards...
STEPHEN AMES

I think I did that this week, put myself in another gear. It was a matter of seeing the shot and hit...
STEPHEN AMES

Around the greens, it's horrendous as far as I'm concerned. I think the fairway rough is fair. But t...
STEPHEN AMES

Around the greens, it's horrendous as far as I'm concerned, ... I think the fairway rough is fair. B...
STEPHEN AMES

It almost feels like we've been kicked back to a secondary event unfortunately. I wish Tim would loo...
STEPHEN AMES

This is probably three, maybe four shots tougher than Hamilton.
STEPHEN AMES

When you live in Calgary and take 10 weeks off from golf, you're just trying to get back to basics.
STEPHEN AMES

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
ALDRICH AMES

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known...
ALDRICH AMES

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease ...
WILLIAM AMES

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some peopl...
ALDRICH AMES

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people...
ALDRICH AMES

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
WILLIAM AMES

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image...
WILLIAM AMES

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
WILLIAM AMES

It's crazy how much people want to know about this, ... I've been on radio shows all day. I could bu...
FRANK AMES

I don't know why it grows like that; it just always has,
FRANK AMES

It's crazy how much people want to know about this,
FRANK AMES

Years lost in early life are irrecoverable, particularly in cricket.
LES AMES

The best murder stories are often soufflés: light, delicately flavored and sometimes threatening to...
KATRINE AMES

C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has ...
MRS. ERNEST AMES

Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience ca...
PETER AMES CARLIN

The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, a...
PETER AMES CARLIN

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.
LOUISE BATES AMES

my stomach turned and burned with the acid of failure
HEIDI L. AMES

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
, NASA AMES DRYDEN

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa...
JONATHAN HICKMAN

I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sur...
JONATHAN KRISEL

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie...
JONATHAN COE

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
JONATHAN ROSS

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
JONATHAN ANDERSON

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo...
JONATHAN TUCKER

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend an...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwe...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor...
JONATHAN EVISON

One person's car is another person's scenery.
JONATHAN IVE

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played t...
JONATHAN FRID

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ...
JONATHAN SACKS

When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers...
JONATHAN MABERRY

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I...
JONATHAN TOEWS

I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started...
JONATHAN TOEWS

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
JONATHAN LETHEM

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U...
JONATHAN SACKS

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals ...
JONATHAN SACKS

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi...
JONATHAN KOZOL

I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hur...
JONATHAN VILMA

The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief momen...
JONATHAN GALASSI

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT

During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
JONATHAN ANDERSON

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real...
JONATHAN HAIDT

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa...
JONATHAN CARROLL

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about...
JONATHAN SACKS

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL

Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL

May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD

The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD

Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD

Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD

Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch...
JONATHAN STROUD

Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...
JONATHAN STROUD

I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our...
JONATHAN STROUD

Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ...
JONATHAN STROUD

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...
JONATHAN STROUD

Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ...
JONATHAN STROUD

God rest her soul and may she never walk at night
JONATHAN STROUD

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six...
JONATHAN STROUD

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
JONATHAN STROUD

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m...
JONATHAN STROUD

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer...
JONATHAN STROUD

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the m...
JONATHAN STROUD

I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.

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Jonathan Ames

I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.

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I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.

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I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.