Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Profound changes are imminent in the ancient craft of the beautiful.
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
Let me just say that I now know what it feels like to be the last one to show up a party. There is no ...
While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to ...
Then I reached the second building and saw the conflagration. A bonfire twenty feet high. The wreck of a Hummer, its carcass barely visible behind ...
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
Chapter 8: Alteration Speed. You will be introduced to the "safeguard," known as alteration speed. Through mastery of body mechanics, you will develop the ability ...
We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.
Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop ...
I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to ...
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we ...
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is ...
Maybe I can drown him in the lily pond.
Do you like this school? I like it very, very much. But soon everything changes. Well at least it does eventually. Fun things, happy thing, ...
How could I love a race of people who hate me?".
Herbs carried in special baskets, bread wrapped in knotted, muslin cloths, thick stews soured with unripe grape juice, carrots boiled with sugar and rosewater, yoghurt ...
Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.
Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so.
...an honest life... is the path of least resistance, the existence that required the least calculation.
Virtues can be developed through study and contemplation or, as this sutra suggests, through recognizing their presence in others. In other words, we should cultivate ...
All the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.
The human genome is a script, waiting for the amino actors, the protein players to strut and fret their hour.
What is that immaterial part of man known as the soul? Theologians in general agree as to the soul's principal powers. They are the mind, ...
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war - which is international sports ...
If going east or west, or back and forthIt always pays to keep in sight true north
My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing ...
And if they're fictional, it is entirely acceptable to cheat on fictional men with other fictional men.
Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has ...
Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can't see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can't manage them.
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.
My sun," he says, tongue lashing mine, "my moon," teeth biting my lips, a growl so deep it makes my toes curl, "my very fucking ...
Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have ...
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
No. I just wanted to fly airplanes.
You cannot bullshit the stopwatch.
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
When the one is sacrificed, the many are also deprived!
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, ...
Lots of men would love to Fuck you silly. The words just popped into his mind. Jesus. Where had that come from?
We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and ...
When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while ...
When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.
Even if it simply means that for the moment there is one less monster.
It was funny, I thought, eyeing the Chinese and English logos on the crates, the names of the companies that supplied both countries, funny because ...
It's not pain. It's raw material.
On the solstice: "The tilting of the earth may very well have stopped at the winter solstice, creaking to a halt and starting back the ...
She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.
I sighed and blew
Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!
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