Jaffe Quotes

#1. If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
(Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)

Aaron Sorkin

#2. What Jaffe proved was that the powerful have to worry about how others think of them - that those who give orders are acutely vulnerable to the opinions of those whom they are ordering about.

Anonymous

#3. But secrets can also keep things precious. Private. That's what can be hard for people to understand. It can be nice to have something you don't share with the world. -Bridgette

Michele Jaffe

#4. Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each..

Charles Jaffe

#5. For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.

Michele Jaffe

#6. Which left me with the cheery knowledge that my father would wan tto spend time with me even if i were a cold, stiff corpse. not every daughter can say that, i bet!

Michele Jaffe

#7. What are this blind dates?' he asked curiously .
'An old American institution of mismating.

Rona Jaffe

#8. I want to feel what pressures other people feel. Experience the world guided by someone else's moral compass. See and hear and taste with senses formed in a completely different mold than mine. I want to see what it's like to live someone else's lie ... Someone else's life.

Michele Jaffe

#9. If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#10. You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.

Rona Jaffe

#11. I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#12. I paused, deciding which story to pluck from my quiver and shoot in his direction -Eve

Michele Jaffe

#13. Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

Michele Jaffe

#14. Over the water of time I call to you
In a language I do not know.

Ellen S. Jaffe

#15. A blond in a red dress can do without introductions
but not without a bodyguard.

Rona Jaffe

#16. But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing.

Rona Jaffe

#17. The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm

Rona Jaffe

#18. YES. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL. LIKE A SUAVE THING. In fact, from here on, please forward my mail to 1 Suave Hill, Suave Boulevard, Suavieland, Planet of She's-So-Smooth-I-Can't-Believe-She's-Not-Butter.

Michele Jaffe

#19. It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits..

Charles Jaffe

#20. That was the plan?
part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved.
it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.

Michele Jaffe

#21. You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.

Jaffe Cohen

#22. Girls always think, "I'm going to be the exception," Caroline thought; it's a weakness of the species, like a collie's tiny brain.

Rona Jaffe

#23. People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

Susan Jaffe

#24. Ford kept his hands on his head. "Is that really necessary? I was arrested by Serenity Services a week ago, and they didn't even cuff me."
The argument that you don't need cuffs because you were arrested without them a week ago is a winner, Sadie thought.

Michele Jaffe

#25. Say 'Not Yet.' It's best to leave your options open.

Michele Jaffe

#26. You can't run away from home. It's not home if you want to run away from it.

Michele Jaffe

#27. I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

Michele Jaffe

#28. I picked out a question with care. You have to be careful with strangers; questions can reveal as much as answers -Eve

Michele Jaffe

#29. The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#30. Man is the only creature with the power to control instinct by his own will, but he is also able to suppress, distort, and wound it - and an animal, to speak metaphorically, is never so wild and dangerous as when it is wounded.

Aniela Jaffe

#31. It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.

Rona Jaffe

#32. ...they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content.

Rona Jaffe

#33. I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.

Michele Jaffe

#34. If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a shot at that.'

Stanley R. Jaffe

#35. She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

Stuart Jaffe

#36. I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#37. I spend a lot of time with my children. I like to go to the country with them, where we can spend hours walking in the woods and talking. That's more important to me than anything else.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#38. The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f
k are you?

Jaffe Cohen

#39. There's no such thing as lost; there's just adjusting your perspective.

Michele Jaffe

#40. My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#41. I just think that once you begin to see things the way the camera says is the average way, the way most people want to see them, it can be hard to remember to go back and find your own focus, your own point of view -Scott

Michele Jaffe

#42. I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop. (hardcover page 37)

Michele Jaffe

#43. Impossible is just another word for 'loser who gives up.

Michele Jaffe

#44. But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special

Rona Jaffe

#45. Little Life Lesson 40: If you are lucky enough to vist the Fantasyland Diner, try to stay as long as possible because their desserts are no calorie, and also: the realy world sucks.

Michele Jaffe

#46. It's so nice to have sane friends.
I imagine.

Michele Jaffe

#47. Someday science will supply all of us with washboard abs.

Harold Jaffe

#48. How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute ... And rolling my eyes the next.

Michele Jaffe

#49. That arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

Michele Jaffe

#50. It was was very important not to cast any pearls before swine
especially when one of the swine was trying to keep kosher.

Jaffe Cohen

#51. Oh well, it's over for you. Call the code at 2:03 p.m."
My eyes widened in shock. "That's what they say when someone dies."
"Exactly." He nodded. "Woman have fallen in love with me after staring like that for only thirty seconds and
I think you just took a full minute. You're doomed.

Michele Jaffe

#52. Advertising is a tax paid for being unremarkable.*" If that is true, then this tax is rising fast, which is good news for the government - not to mention production companies, media sellers, and agencies -

Joseph Jaffe

#53. For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it..

Charles Jaffe

#54. Messages don't succeed because they say something new and exciting that no one had ever heard before; instead, they succeed because they explain something that people feel but have been at a loss to explain.

Sarah Jaffe

#55. She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.

Rona Jaffe

#56. Boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

Rona Jaffe

#57. God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think?
Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking ...

Michele Jaffe

#58. I think I could use a library, she answered finally.

Michele Jaffe

#59. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.

Jaffe Cohen

#60. What?
she told you to pee in a cup, i think that means get lost.

Michele Jaffe

#61. It takes someone really brave to confess they're wrong and try to make it right -Pete

Michele Jaffe

#62. On the way out of the bathroom, he stopped to put the toilet seat down. You're going to break my heart, Ford Winter, she thought.

Michele Jaffe

#63. Ford! Sadie shouted sharply.
His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class.
It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!

Michele Jaffe

#64. Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it's probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.

Michele Jaffe

#65. Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do..

Charles Jaffe

#66. I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.

Michele Jaffe

#67. Popularity can be a real headache.

Michele Jaffe

#68. It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.

Charles Jaffe

#69. Little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

Michele Jaffe

#70. It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy

Rona Jaffe

#71. So let me see-you've got a boyfriend, a not boyfriend, and a secret admirer.
" He shook his head at me. "Girl, no wonder someone tried to run you down.

Michele Jaffe

#72. To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation.

Rona Jaffe

#73. I didn't mean to interupt you if you were looking for your friends Miss
'
'Callihan,' but you can call my Jasmine. Or Jas.' Or Snookums. Honeybunch. Hotsie Totsie Cowgirl. My Little
'It's nice to meet you Jasmine, I'm Jack.

Michele Jaffe

#74. Talking to yourself again, jas?
yes, it beats talking to you.
oh, time machine back to first grade much?
only to visit your brain.

Michele Jaffe

#75. Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell it's out to get you.

Michele Jaffe

#76. You're afraid. You're afraid of trying and not succeeding. What's the worst thing that happens if you apply and don't get it? -Scott

Michele Jaffe

#77. Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

Michele Jaffe

#78. It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all

Rona Jaffe

#79. I never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

Michele Jaffe