Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people ...
This guy was making me tired. "Thanks for the afternoon's entertainment," I said. "I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should ...
Never settle for just good enough, settle for greatness.
It's because you're scared that there's danger.But could she manage not to be scared anymore?
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there ...
Access to a college degree is critical.
I did not agree..to having my article censored ... The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not ...
I know of no book which has been a source ofbrutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private,that can compare with the Bible
There comes atime when one has seen such suffering one begins to understand, in thisworld, even the innocent may be forced to bear the sins ...
After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be ...
There are lots, a lot of people in this pillow factory that we live in all the time. I only know the ones around my ...
Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.
Superior people talk about ideas. Mediocre people talk about things. Little people talk about other people.
Something about Van has always brought late-night nature programming to mind.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit ...
Saying "I'm Christian and gay" proves nothing. The question shouldn't be Can a person be homosexual and still belong to God? But rather, Is homosexuality ...
Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.
But at a moment when I needed such interaction
Today we learned the letter "v"! It's in all kinds of words! Like "very" and "value" and "waves"!" "That's great!" Mavis giggled. She hoped it ...
Nice to meet you," Remus says. It's a reflex. If one banged his knee, chances are he'd probably come out with a "how many sugars ...
TABLE 2.1 The Spectrum of Manic Symptoms
It could sometimes be alive and dead at the same time in its bounded but expanding domain. It experienced both conditions and simply didn't like ...
They don't write books and make movies about people who make peace with the unjust deaths of others. They write them about people who muster ...
Tell Jim he was born at six in the morning.
It's that old, old fear thing again. Why does it creep along with us, attached to us like our shadow? Why can't it just leave ...
She's different and we could be something different together. Something astounding. Something you encounter once in a lifetime, if that.
It's not a bad thing to play second fiddle if the first chair is a virtuoso.
I am an Ivy league graduate. I have a Harvard MBA. I've opened casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the French Riviera. I've worked ...
Often the thing that brings you the most pain is the very thing that will lead you to the most gain and your breakthrough.
There was never an age considered old enough to know everything. The calm seas of hell were only a break before the next storm.
You're only 90. You've never been chased by a torch-carrying mob.
He was a son of a bitch, too. He played ball in school, and had those fancy-cut muscles the young men have these days. They ...
Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.
If we don't love and respect ourselves, everything else disintegrates: our relationships, our work, our faith, and our dreams. We are the only filter between ...
Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.
My kids are so cute when they pray.
A book is a blessing that comes into our lives to teach, entertain, and inspire.
I'm sorry,' I say for what feels like the millionth time. I know, even as my mouth forms the words, that I will say them ...
I'm on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don't mind people, but I'd prefer not to have a lot of them around.
I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.
Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live ...
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful ...
I'm writing my book in fifth person, so every sentance starts out with: " I heard fron this guy who told somebody ..." -Demetri Martin
Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit ...
Be kind. Be wise. Be free!
I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone ...
Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to ...
Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.
No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.
Can we handle each other? Can we....bond? It's all chemistry anyhow.