Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Time to plant trees is when you're young,So you will have them to walk among -So, aging, you can walk in shadeThat you and time ...
But did you know that caffeine is more addictive than heroin?
But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for she ...
I won't say the pain was indescribable, since there are plenty of good descriptive words: excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, and so on.
Listen to your own music. Feel its rhythm and beat. Notice what creates music in you. Tap into your natural gifts and talents, your passionate ...
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.
Emptiness crowded out joy and silence replaced meaning, but the Son is shining.
It was all I could do to keep from lunging across the table and pressing my shuttering lips against his burning flesh. My palms were ...
No one wants to be in the dark forever; just happens that most of us aren't strong enough to find the light switch.
Reality just gets in the way of achieving goals.
The profound originality of a divine-human pact in which both parties complain endlessly about each other has too rarely been acknowledged as such.
It takes time to save time.
If you don't have an emotionally healthy staff you won't move forward as an organization.
I have a sixth sense for things I don't want to know and her manner pegged this as top of the scale ignorance-is-bliss material.
In the middle of this poor life, we are surrounded by mystery, and the pity of it is that we would rather just be poor. ...
Passion pursues; love surrenders.
I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.
The Los Angeles Times surmised that "hippies, property owners, . . . and police are involved in a conflict with social overtones that far transcend ...
Rain makes applesauce. Oh, you're just talking silly talk!
I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one.
There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - ...
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
If there's one phrase you will hear over and over from me, it's this: A strong butt is key to a happy running life.
Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.
So, with the crash of artillery, in the dark, with hatred, and fear, and reckless daring, new Russia was being born.
Most blues begin 'woke up this morning'.
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
Writer's Disease: About ninety per cent of your time is wasted on totally pointless and distracting activity, and only about ten per cent is actually ...
If no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.
As we learn to embrace our authentic longings and feelings - and cultivate self-empathy and the corresponding compassion toward others - our society will gradually ...
The tiniest good deed Reverberates Forever Through the Universe The tiniest bad deed Finds Echo Only In our own Heart ...
Expect your daddy wanted to give you time to think
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.
I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it ...
The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?
And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the ...
I might not be the best rider out there," he said, "but I know how to suffer.
You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard ...
Stumblingblocks? If you are facing one right now, be grateful for two reasons. It landed in front of you not on top of you. And ...
The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. ...
Sometimes your brain can't compute what your eyes see. Sometimes you need to stare, hoping maybe you'll wake up and find out everything was a ...
No plumbline could fathom the depths of my faithlessness !! LMS says this to the rector who comes in to visit him in hospital as ...
Communicate with intelligence by saying what you mean without saying it in a mean way.
The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity.
It's not who you were, It's who you've become that matters
I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky ... my dad had one when he was ...