Janine Quotes

#1. Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi.

Ann M. Martin

#2. trust you are prepared for it, both financially and phy - " "We're all set," I said, cutting Janine off.

Ann M. Martin

#3. An average person has an IQ of 100. An above-average person has an IQ of 120 to 140. A person with an IQ of 150 is considered a genius. Janine's IQ is 196. Sometimes

Ann M. Martin

#4. I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

Ronnie Dunn

#5. Janine," Anton cried, delighted. "Zach. My, my, this is

Debbie Macomber

#6. When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

Lloyd Alexander

#7. Janine smiles. Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

Gabrielle Zevin

#8. It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. One

Margaret Atwood

#9. Taryn, is it really that bad? (Janine)
Considering the fact that I'm stuck out in this wretched heat wearing high heels with a black car that currently wouldn't go downhill with a hurricane pushing it, I'd say yes. (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. Only, it's not an it. It's a her. A zombie. A woman. A zombie woman. She's older than Janine, closer to my age, maybe early thirties, missing a little bit of her face, but otherwise sort of pretty in a melancholy way.

Charles Yu

#11. May the Lord open, Janine would have replied, tonelessly, in her transparent voice, her voice of raw egg white.

Margaret Atwood

#12. It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.

Aleksey Igudesman

#13. Do you need me to come pick you up? (Janine)
No. I appreciate the thought, but I have to wait on the tow truck, which seems to be the only thing moving slower than my DOA Firebird. (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Oh, easy," said Janine. "It was George Herman. That's it. I won!" "Cheater!" I cried. "You looked! You must have looked!" "I did not," Janine retorted. "I just knew it." "Nerd!" Janine slammed the board shut and walked off in a huff.

Ann M. Martin

#15. You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

Janine Turner

#16. I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Janine Turner

#17. I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

Janine Shepherd

#18. I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.

Janine Turner

#19. Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool.

Janine Di Giovanni

#20. The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.

Janine Turner

#21. Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

Janine Benyus

#22. To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.

Janine Di Giovanni

#23. Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.

Janine Benyus

#24. Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.

Janine Di Giovanni

#25. It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.

Janine Di Giovanni

#26. Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Janine Di Giovanni

#27. If you never have a go, you never, never know.

Janine Shepherd

#28. Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.

Janine Turner

#29. The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

Janine Benyus

#30. Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

Janine Benyus

#31. Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.

Richelle Mead

#32. My desire is to walk with God every day.

Janine Turner

#33. I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

Janine Di Giovanni

#34. For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Janine Benyus

#35. Biomimicry is ... the conscious emulation of life's genius.

Janine Benyus

#36. Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.

Janine Di Giovanni

#37. It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from me all my life, flipping between my fingers like a shiny little minnow
such a far cry from the trophy salmon that dangled from my father's fist.

Elissa Janine Hoole

#38. There are people who are seekers and people who aren't.

Janine Di Giovanni

#39. In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Janine Di Giovanni

#40. It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

Janine Di Giovanni

#41. It's the rule of bird shit.

Janine McCaw

#42. What I Cannot Say
only this
I was looking
for evidence of unconditional love,
but what I found was you.
standing on the ferry deck
your dark hair a fury in the wind
Are you lost to me?

Elissa Janine Hoole

#43. My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

Janine Turner

#44. My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

Janine Di Giovanni

#45. The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

Janine Benyus

#46. Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

Janine Di Giovanni

#47. Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

Janine Turner

#48. I wonder if it hurts, being carved out like this, one grain of sand at a time. I wonder if the rocks realize that for every part of themselves they lose, they gain something beautiful

Elissa Janine Hoole

#49. Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

Janine Di Giovanni

#50. I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.

Janine Turner

#51. During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

Janine Di Giovanni

#52. The challenge for the principal, then, is to devise incentives to ensure that she (the agent) will act in the best interest of her principal. This

Janine Wedel

#53. Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

Janine Benyus

#54. Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

Janine Turner

#55. Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

Janine Di Giovanni

#56. After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.

Janine M. Benyus

#57. In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

Janine Benyus

#58. Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

Janine Benyus

#59. Let's stay up all night,' Kat whispers. 'Let's wait for the moon to kiss the morning star.

Elissa Janine Hoole

#60. I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

Janine Di Giovanni

#61. The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Janine Benyus

#62. In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

Janine Di Giovanni

#63. It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

Janine Shepherd

#64. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination

Janine Benyus

#65. Are you being obedient, or just martyring yourself for another good cause?

Janine Mendenhall

#66. It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.

Janine Di Giovanni

#67. What does it mean when individuals can no longer be embarrassed or shamed?

Janine R. Wedel

#68. There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

Janine Di Giovanni

#69. I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

Janine Turner

#70. If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature
even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe
has to change.

Janine Benyus

#71. If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

Janine Shepherd

#72. Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Janine Benyus

#73. Don't blame us," said my mother. "We didn't blow up half of Court, steal a dozen cars, call out a murderer in the middle of a crowd, or get our teenage friend crowned queen."
"Actually," said Abe, "I did blow up half of Court.

Richelle Mead

#74. When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece.

Janine Di Giovanni

#75. The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.

Janine Benyus

#76. I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

Janine Turner

#77. I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

Janine Di Giovanni

#78. Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

Janine Di Giovanni

#79. Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

Janine Benyus

#80. I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

Janine Di Giovanni

#81. Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

Janine Benyus

#82. Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Janine Benyus

#83. And this is the worse part of it - when you realize that what separates you, someone who can leave, from someone who is trapped in Aleppo, or Homs or Douma or Darayya, is that you can walk away and go back to your home with electricity and sliced bread; then you begin to feel ashamed to be human.

Janine Di Giovanni

#84. The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources
there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.

Janine Benyus

#85. In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

Janine Di Giovanni

#86. There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

Janine Benyus

#87. Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.

Janine Di Giovanni

#88. Without activity, padded rooms are kind of creepy.

Janine A. Southard

#89. In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

Janine Di Giovanni

#90. When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine Di Giovanni

#91. Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

Janine Shepherd

#92. Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

Janine Di Giovanni

#93. My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Janine Turner

#94. Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

Janine Di Giovanni

#95. Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.

Janine Di Giovanni

#96. In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

Janine Di Giovanni

#97. In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

Janine Turner

#98. So it wasn't a dream. You really are here in my bedroom....

Janine Caldwell

#99. The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

Janine Benyus

#100. We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

Janine Shepherd