Jerome Peterson > Jerome's Quotes

“History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Power is in control, not reaction”
― Jerome Peterson

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“You can eclipse the sun, but the truth will always shine through.”
― Jaree Francis, Drama, My Favorite Nephew

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright

“Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.”
― Steven Wright

“Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.”
― Steven Wright

“Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.”
― Steven Wright

“Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”
― Steven Wright

“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?”
― Steven Wright

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
― Steven Wright

“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”
― Steven Wright

“Maybe its not a person we fall in love with so much as a distance, a depth , which that particular person happens to embody.”
― Gustaf Sobin, The Fly-Truffler

“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Everything you are
afraid of will never happen. It’s the events you cannot
conceive of that happen.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!”
― Mark Twian

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons