Jim Butcher Quotes

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

Some people are oil and water.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

The expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

I always hated that 'You Think You Know Me' music because it never fit me and what I actually listen to.

Some voices don't blend. They just kinda rub against each other.

There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in.

"You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just - clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich." "That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.