Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended ...
The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't ...
Jodi Orgill Brown is inspired by people who live fulfilled lives in spite of their struggles. She loves spending time with her muses,
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work,
Well, that was fun," She said stiffly , glaring at Jax."Next time why don't you hike your leg on me like I'm a friggin tree?
Love is never silent; it is spoken in every moment and even in the silence it enfolds you and strengthens you
They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity
Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit has summarized it ...
White-collar crime costs the communities in which it occurs more money than common crimes, but because white-collar criminals steal with a pencil they get away ...
It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant ... In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and ...
A rude tourist was looking at paintings in a museum. He didn't find anything interesting and turned to the attendant while pointing to a large ...
Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. ...
The fastest and most sure way to be successful with any business or job is to do what you love to do.
Budgets may count Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs), but great teams count on people.
OCD focuses on the negative. I didn't think to myself, My praying will save my grandma. Instead, I thought, If I don't pray, my grandma ...
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)
The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.
They don't use no bad words?" she asked. "No fighting and killing? No naked people?" "That's right." "Who would write like that except for old ...
You have wings, I have roots.
We only hate what we don't understand.
I think the definition of a book is changing.
You can safely assume you've remade God in your own image when it turns out God hates the same people you do. Anne Lamott, Bird ...
The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose ...
From the stars we came, to the stars we return. From now until the end of time. We therefore commit these bodies to the deep.
When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't ...
Eckhart Tolle, the new age philosopher, says, "What you do is secondary. How you do it is primary.
Think of music like you think of eating. There's meat and potatoes, very hearty basic comfort food that sticks to your bones and nourishes you. ...
I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its ...
One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to ...
When I started in '54, it was only one track on a quarter-inch machine. We didn't have recording studios much around the country; we went ...
In a place built on sand, hold on to whatever you can.
Anna, you do have decent fashion sense. But I've seen your outfits, and you don't have anything to wear on a date. Jeans, capris, geeky ...
There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
I really enjoy pie.
As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let ...
Oh, shut up Hagan. I'm not doing it for you; I'm doing it for me. I don't want your blood getting all over my outfit.
I am always looking up towards the sky; that is how I am.
The best government is that which governs least.
The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time ...
He wanted his mother with the fiery need of a five-year-old lost at Disneyland.
For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the ...
Once upon a time there was a dream.Now we have only to draw it.
In the end our lives are nothing more than simple stories. It's good to occasionally step back and make sure you are the one writing.
A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.
I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years ...
[Science is] the literature of truth.
True love is full of drama.
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees ...