Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
Living in the fifties America was in many ways like living in a public space that's suddenly emptied out, a theater after closing, or a ...
Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear.
As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, ...
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
Not only does God order my steps, but He delights in each wobbly step I take along His path.
His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon
Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems
I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.
Sometimes, when we feel the greatest need to be alone, it's the moment we should most welcome the company of others.
It's lonely and cold on the top ... lonely and cold.
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
Gender is irrelevant. We should all be treated simply as human beings.
I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.
The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to ...
I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured ... Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. ...
What was wrong with a good German stride?
Increasing longevity in the general population gives neurologic disease more opportunity to emerge.
To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow ...
Go early. Stay late. Be MEMORABLE.
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.
For if my poems have always been about survivaland I believe they have beenthen survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.
Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.
Change is a more complicated process involving brain integration than is data gathering.
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to ...
She stared at him and swallowed. The laugh had been so real, so deep. This was the man she had married. She didn't need food. ...
The world is divided into two categories of people: those who shit in drinking water and those who don't.
Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them ...
How does a boot to the groin region sound?" A quick smirk. "I'll even pay you." Tommy feigned shock. "Jeez, no wonder you're making no ...
If you feel hatred in your heart, pray. If you feel murder in your mind, pray. God will repay.
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl!
I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and ... go to the schools and play some of ...
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic ...
For the vernacular which he was adept at converting
Proof is better than said.
This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got.
For these are the things of Man: Sex, Lust and Death.
For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out of that. I ...
Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.
Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree.
Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.
People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.
Zeros now have a place, and they displace the phallic order of ones.
I know two kinds of Christians, those that love and those that love to be right.
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
One thing I've learned, Father--that in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your ...
Love is but a frailty of mind when 'tis not with ambition joined." -Sir Thomas Seymour
I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.