Billie Jo Quotes

#1. The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

James Altucher

#2. Daddy named me Billie Jo. He wanted a boy. Instead, he got a long legged girl with a wide mouth with cheekbones like bicycle handles. He got a redheaded, freckle faced, narrow-hipped girl with a fondness for apples and hunger for playing fierce piano.

Karen Hesse

#3. How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

Philip James Bailey

#4. By the summer I turned nine Daddy had given up about having a boy. He tried making me do.

Karen Hesse

#5. We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat! ...

Rumi

#6. There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world ...

Billie-Jo Williams

#7. And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

Anthony Marra

#8. A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

Vittorio Alfieri

#9. Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Ron Perlman

#10. HARRY POTTER RESCUE MISSION

J.K. Rowling

#11. The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Karl Liebknecht

#12. If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

George Burns

#13. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Margaret Sanger

#14. I love afternoons like that, like when we talk about things like metempsychosis, when we learn so much, and explore so much, and ideas grow and take flight, like the idea about the universe and the egg. I love being home-schooled, when we don't have to stick to subjects and timetables and rules.

David Almond

#15. Discouragement comes to those Christians, who are living and are working hard to fulfill their visions and callings

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

Billie-Jo Williams

#17. What name shall I call you?"
"Addie's fine. I know who she is."
"A mouthy little alchemist?"
"See, you know her, too.

Becca Andre

#18. Because you didn't and someone did, and that has made all the difference! So either have the courage to ask her out prior, or have the decency to watch her with someone else.

Sarvesh Jain

#19. It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company.

Billie-Jo Williams