Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
That's why I was out in the streets. To make sure no one else was there.
Each day is like a treasure box of gifts from God, just waiting to be opened. Open your gifts with excitement. You will find forgiveness ...
Was anybody shooting at you?"-George "Judge" Knott (responding to his son-in-law after hearing complaints about the army in 1963.)"No."-Son-in-law"Well then, sounds like you had a ...
I felt like I was losing some imaginary battle over the forces of fate and love.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They ...
No-one is ever betrayed by true love.
Luke doesn't see the scar on my face; perphaps he never did. He saw the scars on the inside. We were equally damaged, me and ...
If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today.
Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken.
Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth ...
That's funny! Where I come from, good triumphs over evil, you old hag!
The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?
When I initially met with Robert I was just so excited to meet the guy. I was able to go to Troublemaker Studios in Austin, ...
Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.
I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over ...
If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.
Anyone can overdress.The true art is stripping the extraneous.
Can you imagine looking at forever and knowing you'll always be alone?
From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same ...
It doesn't seem right that someone like that would get sick and die.'[He] countered, 'Why shouldn't it be right? It's what happens.
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to ...
Hordes of people lingered and gawked at the one moving car on the road as Rob drove over medians and sidewalks, narrowly avoiding them along ...
Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium.
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Sometimes choice means change. Fate doesn't often give us a lot of insight on what will be.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.
If you are uncomfortable in saying no, practice in front of the mirror to get used to seeing yourself say no. It's good practice, especially ...
Chaos is the true state of the universe anyway." "My universe was fairly orderly before all this." "It was only an illusion.
Realizing that inequality is socially constructed empowers us to be agents of change.
I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house ...
In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who ...
I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.
In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It's my box. Put ...
I was meant to sensitivity.
Don't rely too much upon that unsteady flicker.
It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without ...
Too." "I guess it's just nice to have someone
I shall know my home by its indelible mark upon my longing, for it is the longing that is the plate on which the image ...
Poets are light amidst darkness
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce ...
...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.
The use of animals in medical research remains absolutely essential ...
Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking ...
I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.
Suit yourself, but don't pretend you would have done any better. There are only so many options a man has when he's about to lose ...
Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song.
It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly ...