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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.


Jonathan Frakes

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LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition....
KIRSTEN VANGSNESS I like sci-fi.
BILL NIGHY I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.
BLAIR BROWN I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they'...
LISA SCOTTOLINE I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
EMINEM I do like sci-fi, and I do like horror - those are my favorite genres. Good horror, though, not like...
MARK PELLEGRINO I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
WOLE SOYINKA I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creat...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but i...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I will write another book if I feel like it.
JAMES HERRIOT I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
CASS MCCOMBS I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.
RUDOLPH VALENTINO I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable a...
HARRISON FORD I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I l...
SONYA WALGER I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.
LEONA LEWIS I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; ...
STACEY D'ERASMO I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person,...
BLAC CHYNA I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his at...
MAC DEMARCO I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
YOUNG THUG I feel like we all have our skeletons.
TARAJI P. HENSON I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
BILL MAULDIN I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.
JONATHAN DAVIS I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
NANCI GRIFFITH I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.
ALEXANDER CHEE Between earth and heaven, this woman must be the most evil and the most hated person ever, yet betwe...
FENG NONG I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and th...
J. H. WYMAN What I like about vampires is what I like about everything I want to write about, the depths and hei...
TANITH LEE A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect wa...
T. J. PERKINS I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that s...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New Y...
LANA DEL REY I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and ...
JOHN KEEGAN [FAVORITE BOOK/AUTHOR:] Pride and Prejudice ... I like that period of literature and I like the snap...
JANE AUSTIN I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I lik...
ELLE MACPHERSON I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and emp...
C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.
SANDRA DEE I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.
TRAVIS SCOTT I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is l...
MAYA ANGELOU I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
ILANA GLAZER I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
OLIVIA WILDE I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
RACHEL COHN I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
RACHEL BROSNAHAN I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
KATE MARA I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.
GIN WIGMORE I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
JOAN JETT I feel like fame is wasted on me.
BEN AFFLECK I feel like Elvis. Only alive.
DAVID HASSELHOFF Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.
IGGY AZALEA I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.
BRUCE HORNSBY I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.
CHARLIE WORSHAM I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ...
EVE BUNTING I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I ...
TATIANA MASLANY I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile a...
BRANDON BOYD I feel like I'm a confident dude, so I feel like I can get away with wearing something bold.
CHANDLER PARSONS My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about house...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it...
KATHARINE MCPHEE I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
JIM HARRISON I can swear like a fishwife.
FRANCES BAY I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbird...
ROBIN COSTE LEWIS I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.
ANDREW MASON When you get on stage you turn into another person man, I mean I swear I turn into Tyler Durden (fro...
FRED DURST I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
NELSON MANDELA I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
FERNANDO ALONSO I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, a...
DAVID LISS I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
GAY TALESE Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.
BIG SEAN I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD Tupac was a person who was all about love. I feel like that's me, too; that's who I've a...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, ...
YOUNG JEEZY I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
BAZ LUHRMANN I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
ED HARRIS It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
EMMA WATSON I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.
TREVOR JACKSON I feel like I'm like a healer in a pop singer's life.
MARY LAMBERT You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
Q-TIP I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.
KELLY RIPA I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
DANE COOK I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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DENNIS FRAKES It's a real Star Trek script. It feels like real sci-fi.
JOHNATHAN FRAKES Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.
JOHNATHAN FRAKES No, I was a psychology major in college.
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JOHNATHAN FRAKES If it was a guest part, you'd only go in once and read for the producer and director, and you'd know...
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JOHNATHAN FRAKES I think in general, you need a bad guy to have someone to root against and I think kids understand a...
JOHNATHAN FRAKES I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
JONATHAN STROUD More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
JONATHAN STROUD Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer no...
JONATHAN STROUD Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT Don't set your wit against a child.
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JONATHAN SWIFT It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by...
JONATHAN KOZOL The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n...
JONATHAN MILLER Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re...
JONATHAN RABAN One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JONATHAN KOZOL Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
JONATHAN MILLER For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
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