Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
When you read a good book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it" -
If you can't love or hate your characters then walk away from the keyboard. If they aren't real enough to elicit emotion in you, then ...
We educated people make a great display of humility when we meet, trying to get the better of each other in unimportance. It is usually ...
It was so long in the past that it should not have mattered, but it did. It did. Once he had realized that these words ...
Our hearts are magnets. We attract to our heart the emotions that live within it
The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You ...
Under the circumstances, she wished he would show some maturity and just accept her decision to pretend he didn't exist.
I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, ...
Never show fear. Move forward. Don't hesitate; they wont expect it.
If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted.
For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, ...
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - ...
We stopped when we reached a plateau near the peak of the mountain and perhaps it was delirium, but I think I saw God for ...
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
A regime responsible for such a scheme of mass killings was corrupt to the core and did not deserve to survive. It's a disgrace that ...
The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . a provocative and original philosophical genius.
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.
One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and ...
Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.
Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.
Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.
Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.
The most stupid thing a man can think of, is to think that he knows everything
Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way.
The teacher, not a set of books, is the determining factor in quality results.
In volume terms, the Tasmanian wine industry is as tiny as its potential is large.
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.
I am afloat on a sea of foaming joy and delight.
You are communicating things to yourself, about yourself, just as you are communicating those things to other people.
I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
I will not blame others.
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...
The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in ...
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.
I'm flatulent in many languages.
We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun ...
To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.
The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence ...
And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. (1 John 3:5)
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.
They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared.
Without truth behind them, words are just a bunch of letters.
I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to ...
My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever ...
To strive to seek to find and not to yeild-Tennison
One of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to ...
I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after.