For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.
– Joe Dunthorne
Related Quotes:
- Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner. – Joe Dunthorne
- I asked my dad, -œIf we were going to have two dads, should we call you Dad Number One and Dad Number Two? – Natalie Perry
- A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I’ve got a nickle in my pocket. – Groucho Marx
- If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector? – Nicole Fende
- Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit. – O Stephen Peart
- I would never say snog. I would say osculate.- She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist? – Joe Dunthorne
- Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place. – Joe Dunthorne
- Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana’s is still better: Tumour Mother. – Joe Dunthorne
- Mirad had asked for peace for his birthday.Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present.When I heard that I cried. – Ad De Bont
- Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake. – Else Holmelund Minarik
- Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry. – Kami Garcia
- Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you, but rather what YOU can do for your Joe Montaperto. – Joe Montaperto
- I was not born with English in my pocket. – Santosh Kalwar
- Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than ‘see you tomorrow? – Jennifer Flackett
- A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it. – Mikhail Bulgakov
- Sometimes, when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread – Suzanne Collins
- He lowered his eyes to his dad’s face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about. – Robert Liparulo
- If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to. – Joanne Fluke
- Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him. – Brian Spellman
- Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father’s pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart. – Dennis Lehane
- The heart wasn’t designed to decide it was designed to feel. – Wordions
- Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions! – Israelmore Ayivor
- When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
- Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations. – Vijay Govindarajan
- … as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to ‘metal objects designed to cause harm’. – Austin Grossman
- Whatever does not change you specially makes you different. – Nadair Desmar
- I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it. – Nuno Roque
- Cemeteries can be creepy, creepy, -˜specially at night. – Jason Medina
- God designed u to fit an architectural edifice. Discover your real self – Ikechukwu Joseph
- His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel. – Suzanne Collins
- His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too. – Suzanne Collins
- The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists. – Neville Weston
- To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. – Jack Lynch
- Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. – Aravind Adiga
- We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. – William Golding
- Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea. – Cynthia Hand
- I want my lobster in bite-sized pieces! How dare you make me chew more than thrice? – Adam Jay Epstein
- Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it? – Jandy Nelson
- Baking Zomick’s challah is comforting, and breads are the sweetest little bits of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal. – Zomicks Bakery