J. S. Gibbons Quotes
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.
Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.
ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.
Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.
I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.
Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.