Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
I'm thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We'll call it something like 'Two Music Boys.'
I figure if you truly love someone, it must be like the river: full of hidden surprises and sparkles so bright it just about makes ...
Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up ...
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its ...
Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.
Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.
Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven ... As those who climb ...
The grocer told him that he participated in his sorrow, the Hebrew way of expressing condolence.
Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the ...
Oh, to be told a blissful liethat might be true!
While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.
Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.
Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.
The magic words for a great relationship are, I love you just the way you are.
A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it ...
Every time I looked at the sky and at my watch, that monster was still up there.
Your language indicates--and limits--what you think.
I have to put myself back in the audience's shoes and figure out what they would know and not know. But, there are also times ...
Why does being alive have to mean always losing, always losing everything all the time? You
...to become a Christian one did not have to become a European. [Jesuit mission philosophy]
I'm going to do something bigger and better,bigger and betterand bolder, but first,I'm going to do somethingsmaller and worse.
Helen's words had hit Quentin like a weed whacker stuck down the front of his underwear and turned on high. And not the wimpy electric ...
I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
Author describes that a failed sea captain, vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.
The more you talk about price, the lower it gets.
The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders.
What doesn't kill us will only make us stronger.
He rubs his hand through his thick, dark hair and I am riveted by the cords of rippling muscles that intertwine and gallop down his ...
Grace is thoughtful. It considers a back-story, an upbringing, the entire person, and not just a tiny single slice of their life.
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
Most thoughts of wrongdoing are tempered by fear of retribution, which doesn't exonerate us or make us better. We are what we are. JT Barrett
Fate is nonawareness.
How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was ...
All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.
The paradigm of social media is one that Silicon Valley would like to extend to society at large: a technocracy of benevolent, but total, surveillance. ...
There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations[Article : "In the ...
By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of ...
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make ...
I know I shouldn't let him, but it all feels so good, so exciting, that I keep telling myself I'm not doing anything all that ...
I was young and stupid then. Now I'm not young anymore.
Be as vigilantly on guard against translating such a sentence into the passive voice as you would against committing murder.
Learning from your mistake is good, but learning from others mistake is better.
After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!
About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.
Every dog has its day. Some even bite.