[as they drive by an abandoned, half-destroyed apartment building] Jonathan: What is it? Alex: Soviets. Jonathan: What happened? Alex: [pause] Independence.
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
Jack Walsh: I can't keep you cuffed on a commercial flight, and I gotta check my gun with my luggage, but you fuck with me once and I'm gonna break your neck. Jonathan Mardukas: I can't fly. Jack Walsh: What? Jonathan Mardukas: You heard me, I can't ...
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
Jonathan Mardukas: Jahé, everybody, jahé Jack Walsh: What's that? Jonathan Mardukas: It means 'hello'. I can say 'hello' in a lot of different languages. Not yours, but a lot of them.
Jonathan Mardukas: Two dollars? That's all you're gonna leave? Jack Walsh: That's fifteen percent. Jonathan Mardukas: That's thirteen percent. These people depend on tips for a living!
Dracula: You will, I trust, excuse me if I do not join you. But, I have already dined, and I never drink... wine. Jonathan Harker: [looks at painting on the wall] An ancestor? I see a resemblance. Dracula: The Order of the Dracul, the Dragon. An anci...
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
My imagination was no competition for nature.
So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative...art, if you like, is really a lack of alternatives." -Jonathan Meese
Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he’d just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
[before boarding a plane] Jonathan Mardukas: I just wanna tell you that I have fear of flying. Marvin Dorfler: Well, why don't you just relax and sleep through it? [Marvin punches Jonathan, knocking him out]
Jonathan Mardukas: That whole fuckin' department was corrupt! Jonathan Mardukas: There's good and bad everywhere, don't you think? Jack Walsh: Eh, well, I'd say there's bad everywhere. Good I don't know about.
Jonathan Brewster: We're moving the car behind the house. You'd better get to bed. Martha Brewster: The car is alright where it is until morning. Jonathan Brewster: I don't want to leave it in the street. That might be against the law.
Jonathan Brewster: [threatening Mortimer] If you tell O'Hara what's in the window seat, I'll tell him what's in the cellar. Mortimer Brewster: Cellar? Jonathan Brewster: There's an elderly gentleman down there who seems to be very dead.
Are you super strong? Can you be hurt?" "Of course I can," replied Dimitri. "I'm strong, but all sorts of things can still hurt me." And then being Rose Hathaway, I said something I really shouldn't have to the boy. "You should go punch him and find ...
I don't believe in brands.
I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first and everything else second- and Jonathan is the same. Books and magic are all either of them really care about.
