Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
It wasn't an accident.
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
The type of weapon you prefer and in which you have most faith,is the best for you.
An evil and inferior element has entered the situation and will grow over time if nothing is done to stop it.
I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.
In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for ...
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can ...
I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows ...
Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ...
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be ...
Today fraudulent research and corruption are sadly becoming more commonplace. The case of Poul Thorsen, for example, stands out in terms of shameless audacity - ...
( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy ...
God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was ...
The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.
The Temple that the Jews will build on their return to Jerusalem will probably be destroyed by the Earthquake..." (Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation, ...
If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.
You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.
Sublimation concept - in which the term refers to an actual deinstinctualization of drive rather than to a rechanneling of
There is not one right way to ride a wave.
It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began ...
Every man is a mystery to himself. And then we die, unsolved.
Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; ...
So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.
The road to progress is often paved with blood and bullshit.
Paul grasped humor only imperfectly, but supposed he could see the absurdity of it from a human perspective. "Yes, and you are a very charming ...
For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one for ...
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets ...
There are times when it becomes necessary to make a pact with the devil. But it can be especially delicious if one devil is used ...
Though the wind was commanding the sand into even ridges, it couldn't control the sea.
Acronyms are hard enough to remember on their own, but when letters aren't acronyms they become even more confusing. For example, neither RT nor ARM ...
Even in that 'now' moment at which you feel you reach some form of "enlightenment", it will still be a 'moment'. There will still be ...
Adventuresome stories to life for kids big and small who dare to dream.
Choosing to do something significant in life usually requires us to sacrifice our personal convenience, but the results can be life changing for ourselves and ...
In the final measure, nothing speaks like deeds
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages ...
He'd have denied it to his dying breath but Derwent wasn't as tough as he pretended to be. For the very small number of people ...
For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope ...
I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back.
Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher.
God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every ...
The best time to come to Thailand. The more that time passes the more things come up to keep you from coming at all; making ...
It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.
A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.
I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. ...
Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.
You ever think that life is something that happens and that you're not ever completely prepared for?