Jane Bowles Quotes

#1. I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#2. I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

Jane Bowles

#3. My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

Chang-rae Lee

#4. There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

Jane Bowles

#6. I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

Jane Bowles

#7. I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Jane Bowles

#8. My father predicted everything when he said I would procrastinate until I died.

Jane Bowles

#9. Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Benny Hill

#10. You see, I have a different nature than he has. What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see.

Jane Bowles

#11. Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

Jane Bowles

#12. I am not as crazy as people think.

Tom Sizemore

#13. Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

Jane Bowles

#14. Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

Jane Bowles

#15. I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

Jane Bowles

#16. The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

Jane Bowles

#17. I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Jane Bowles

#18. Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.

Richard P. Feynman

#19. Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

Jane Bowles

#20. Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

Jane Bowles

#21. The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

Alfred North Whitehead

#22. There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment ... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Edward Weston

#23. Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Robert Collier

#24. The face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

Jane Bowles

#25. People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

Penn Jillette

#26. Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

Jane Bowles

#27. ..it is against my entire code, but then, I have never even begun to use my code, although I judge everything by it.

Jane Bowles

#28. I am a writer and I want to write.

Jane Bowles

#29. I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Barkhad Abdi

#30. A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

Jane Bowles