Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.
I vividly remember approaching the Resusci Annie doll in the final assessment and singing, 'Annie are you ok, so are you ok Annie, are you ...
Jesus clearly taught orthopraxy (right behavior) much more than orthodoxy (right ideas).
I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death
The fearful and short-sighted dwell in prisons of their own making.
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could ...
Let me get this straight. You've just told me that I was bitten by a vampire, had sex with an angel, then I died, but ...
Never judge a book by its movie.
Knowledge is wasted when it isn't shared.
Writing is healthy schizophrenia.
There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, ...
All Things Unfold As They Should
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.
You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife
Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. ...
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Wait! Wait!" The beggar called out from behind her. "I can see! I'm healthy!" Hilda smiled to herself, pleased. "You just took away my livelihood! ...
But I loved Rule like it was my mission in life. I loved him like it was inevitable, like no matter how many times I ...
There was a naked jock on my bed and a thing with tentacles coming out of my toilet. One of these things did not belong, ...
Courage knows no gender. Courage knows no race. Courage comes from within, from a deeply ingrained sense of duty, from service to something bigger than ...
But with art came idolatry; with construction came ostentation and oppression; with commerce came luxury.
Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine
Nature is my religion. And my desire ... my ambition ... the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me ...
These thoughts only scare me because I'm not afraid of them. I don't want to die. I don't want to kill myself. But I'm not ...
I am certainly very pro-Europe.
I promise you, Laurence, you piss them off enough, and they'll make sweet music with your bones.
As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I ...
I don't understand leggings. They were the worst trend of the '80s.
Religion and mythology, the only difference is a tally of conquests of one over the other...
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and ...
If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I ...
We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.
It's only human to have low moments in life because if you don't, then you won't feel the high, exciting times.
The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it ...
There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult."15
Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book ...
My advice is to sell any high tech company when the United States brings an antitrust suit, not because the company will be harmed by ...
Better than a sharp stick in the eye.
FEW PEOPLE in American history have been as consistently disliked as the Puritans.
Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice.
Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.
Must it all be either less or more, Either plain or grand? ...
It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who ...
Since the hardships of life is what has made me strong, instead of living with regrets--I'm thankful for what went wrong
We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me ...
Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity ...
Think big, act bold, start simple, and iterate fast.
Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.