Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
If we keep our eyes open and our hearts clear, we can realize that life gives us adequate opportunities to experience both love and hope
It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...
Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row ...
YOU KIDDIN' ME! You a damn fool and I'm sick of your whining! I'm the little girl, I'm the one that should be whining and ...
We deal with all the production headaches and all that stuff. They just have to come here and be super funny. And it's worked out ...
OMG I HAVE GOODREADS
A journey need not be long, in terms of time, to turn everything upside down. A day or two in a strange place can change ...
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about ...
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
In many ways, home is an image for the power of stories. With both, we need to live in them if they are to take ...
I am like a praying mantis, after I have sex with a guy I will rip their heads off.
Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special ...
[I've] never written a thing without a record on.
Sorrow is sweetness that has been transformed
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore ...
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, ...
You are corrupting me, Theo." "But you like being corrupted, don't you, sweet girl?
You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships ...
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, ...
Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.
What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema.
She didn't have to take more than the doctor
So, what you're saying is, just because a warrior is a woman doesn't mean they yhave to wear a chain mail bikini? Like, they could ...
The cars rushing below knew nothing. People in cars weren't New Yorkers anyway, they'd suffered some basic misunderstanding. The two boys on the walkway, apparently ...
Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening.
Part geographical, part political, part cultural, Latin America overspills its bounds: is Belize Latin America? Quebec? Miami? Lavapies, Madrid? The Gaucho Grill, Manchester?
Soft and sweet, and burning like fire all at once, his lips clung to mine desperately. His large hand cupped the back of my head,pulling ...
That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people.
Fight with a happy heart.
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.
The continent with the highest proportion of its dryland areas classified as severe or moderately desertified is North America, at 74 percent.
You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.
I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a ...
Feel the mountain and let it show you how you're going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn't a fight, it's a dance, and ...
I say this is about as close to perfect as anything can be. Good God, hellion, I don't think I could take much more perfection ...
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
Love is Short, Remembering is long
Her arms to Noah.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of ...
Find that person that inspires you.
Writing is like canoeing. When everything is flowing it's great but when it's not, you're dragging your butt the whole way down the river.
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.
I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks ...
I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.
Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, ...
What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end ...
Turn off the computer. Often, an open computer screen distracts us from other activities. Our eye catches a glimpse of something and before you know ...
I read therefore I write.