Thursday, November 21, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Matt Groening

« All quotes from this author
 

People are throwing panties at you. They certainly never do that at my book-signings.
--
On playing in The Rock Bottom Remainders

 
Matt Groening

» Matt Groening - all quotes »



Tags: Matt Groening Quotes, People Quotes, Authors starting by G


Similar quotes

 

Your book contains direct analogies between us and the Hitlerite fascists. You book incorrectly describes our people, communists. Could we have won the war with the kind of people you describe? In your book you say positive things about religion, God, Catholicism. Your book defends Trotsky. You book is full of doubts about the legitimacy of our Soviet system.

 
Vasily Grossman
 

Reading Gene Wolfe is dangerous work. It's a knife-throwing act, and like all good knife-throwing acts, you may lose fingers, toes, earlobes or eyes in the process. Gene doesn't mind. Gene is throwing the knives.

 
Gene Wolfe
 

You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's — not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you — not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity — not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul — a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.

 
John Selden
 

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

 
John Howe
 

Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

 
Henry David Thoreau
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact