Janice Mirikitani Quotes

#1. We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

Janice Mirikitani

#2. When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better
her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

Virginia Woolf

#3. What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

Bernard Crick

#4. Don't do anything stupid.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#5. I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady ... take your purse.'

Emo Philips

#6. I didn't have the same dreams and ambitions I did before I left. You could say I no longer had stars in my eyes.

Paul D. Marks

#7. My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

John Prescott

#8. If time and space are curved where do all the straight people come from?

R.J. Scott

#9. Bad women celebrate themselves..

Janice Mirikitani

#10. A man can be pulled in by beauty and not see beneath it.

J.D. Robb

#11. I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

Janice Mirikitani

#12. Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Kirk Douglas

#13. Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

Eric Idle

#14. I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.

Harlan Coben

#15. I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

Joel Coen

#16. The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

Jody Hill

#18. I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

Emily Bronte