J. Graham Quotes

You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.

Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

Creativity is a clashing of opposites.

Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

There are angels on the tree?”“Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don’t we?

I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg. I felt dirty and stupid.

Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

Why can't the ex-Chemist have a second chance? I get that we're kids and he's an adult, but you don't learn everything before you grow up. You learn until grass grows on your grave.

Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.

A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him.

I'd rather live one day as a lionthan live a hundred years as a sheepI'd rather reign in Hell than serve in Heavenlive my dream out in reality and not in my dreams

He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

Surround yourself with people who are better than you in each individual area of business.

Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn’t time to execute the plans well enough.

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

In my experience, there’s no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...

Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

I am more than my measurements. The cycle of body-shaming needs to end. I’m over it… My body is MY body. I’ll call the shots.

Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow, " Aunt Augusta said, "like some people are only bearable under a sheet.

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

After all, Sergios was not all bad. He was tough, ruthless, arrogant and selfish, but while he might have the morals of an alley cat, he had been remarkably kind to her mother.

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.

somewhere under the rage, there's something human. barely.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.