Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Behind every successful child with ADHD is a tired parent.
Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
It became clear to me that they expected children to submit to the school system and sacrifice their own interests, even if that would break ...
You have survived so muchthat no one remembers.And you still spread warmrain on all your overgrownlots. And you still get dressedin the morning. You stillopen ...
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history ... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is ...
Carl's concept of freedom had come to be embodied by a mariner in a storm, wholly responsible for himself, accountable to no one else, asking ...
Understanding will help you out more than memorization.
It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men ...
Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if I can or ...
There are worse addictions than wanting to be happy.
Life is not dull. Be thankful for that.
We are travellers in each other's lives, carried down the paths of time, touching here and there in strange moments of intimacy. And the intersections, ...
Having no travelling companion brings back all the feelings of loneliness that I've fought so hard to overcome. Being on my own, away from the ...
My Dad's son, I am perhaps best able to contribute to your experience with the reading of this book by lending to you some of ...
Villagers took her sudden death as a curse of verdict stone....
As our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.
Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.
Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.
Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We ...
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining
Anytime you do anything, you want to know who was the best at it.
It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be ...
Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.
The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.
Learn to cherish the chase as much as you treasure the trophy.
If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare
Every dimension is special.
God accomplishes his designs unknown even to those whom he employs as his instruments.
I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
The Jedi Order's homespun cloaks announced: I want for nothing, because I am clothed in the Force; the cloaks of the Sith: I am the ...
I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.
It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person.
I love it. I love the challenge of it, working with kids every day, setting goals for myself and the program. I feel it was ...
Ask yourself one question. It is the question that only a very old man asks: Does this path have a heart? One path makes for ...
But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this ...
Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.
A sad sight to behold! Little boys of twelve years, prematurely old, sucking cigars! I felt that if I were their mothers I should whip ...
...most hot-blooded insurrectionists hold their role of 'opposition to a thoroughly secure establishment' as more important than the overthrow of the establishment.
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously ...
Roadblocks are only temporary hurdles, if you know how to punch out a car...
Books enveloped the room floor to ceiling like wallpaper.
Music takes us out of ourselves, away from our worries and tragedies, helps us look into a different world, a bigger picture. All those cadences ...
I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.
The rights of others often begins with the fight for justice of one.
I love to hear the note sing.
Gwen: It's not going to work.Paul: Pardon me?Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with you because you're taking the ugly stepsister to the ball. She'll ...