Jahren Lesen Quotes

#1. The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Patricia Highsmith

#2. No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me.
'Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it ...

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#3. I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

Dylan Moran

#4. Happy!" He leaned over the rail and tried to hold her eyes. But that is hard to do, for eyes are born dodgers and know a whole circumference of ways out of a bad spot.

"Faith in the Afternoon

Grace Paley

#5. A person asked me, How do you prepare for the stage? I told her, Well, it's like this. You go to diction school. They teach you to fill your mouth with marbles and talk right through the marbles. Each day you take one marble out. When you've lost all your marbles ...

Henny Youngman

#6. The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

Shannon Hale

#7. As the flattery of friends corrupts, so often do the taunts of enemies instruct.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

Elena Ferrante

#9. If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

Michael Moore

#10. She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

Toni Cade Bambara

#11. The time groaned by as John made a fool of himself. Eventually, he grew numb to the death and sin around him. He even came to enjoy gallivanting cross-country like a true crusader. His name brought tears of joy or pain of anger to those he left in his wake. The result of his own unresolved pain.

Solange Nicole

#12. It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

Fred Allen

#13. After witnessing the inauguration ceremonies, I am compelled to state how deeply grateful and infinitely thankful and eternally blessed I am to and by God for the privilege of being born and for living out my life in this amazing country- The United States of America

R. Alan Woods