Jake Riordan Quotes

#1. These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is a tool.

Ariel Levy

#2. Just shut up and listen."
"Well since you ask so nicely ... ."
There was silence. I listened. He didn't say anything.
"Are we communicating through the Psychic Hotline or what?

Josh Lanyon

#3. The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

Josh Lanyon

#4. There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

J.M. Coetzee

#6. Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Lucretius

#7. Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

John Thune

#8. There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.

Frank Luntz

#9. 'You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?'
I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'Is this about to get kinky?'

Josh Lanyon

#10. I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

Mary Ellen Mark

#11. He won't feel a fraction of what I do for you. You won't change his life. And you will always wonder about what could have been, always feel that funny little ache right here. He puts his hand over your heart.

Josh Lanyon

#12. I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

Sylvester Stallone

#13. The hill is a sonofabitch but what can you do? Set one foot in front of another and keep climbing.

Steven Pressfield

#14. 'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?'
'No.'
'Point of no return.'

Josh Lanyon

#15. Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

Roberta Flack