Janisse Ray Quotes

#1. The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

Janisse Ray

#2. We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

Walther Rathenau

#3. Day, would meet harm on top of it? Wasn't I safe by default?

Gillian Flynn

#4. I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

Jamie Redknapp

#5. I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, ... that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

Lord Byron

#6. I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.

Janisse Ray

#7. Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.

Janisse Ray

#8. Something happens to me when I garden. I am fully, reliably, blissfully present to who I am and where I am in that moment. I am an animal with a hundred different senses and all of them are switched on.

Janisse Ray

#9. I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

Janisse Ray

#10. I have one rule about trouble. When it comes, I get out of the way.

Tiffany L. Warren

#11. Are you going to farmer up or just lie there and bleed?

Janisse Ray

#12. It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with
a smile.

Katrina Kaif

#13. I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Candace Bushnell

#14. There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#15. Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.

Salvador Plascencia

#16. If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Sergei Bongart

#17. Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone.
Our seeds are disappearing.

Janisse Ray

#18. Motivation comes from within ... nobody can motivate u. Motivational speakers just help u search inside to unlock the power you had all along.

Darrius Garrett

#19. All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close to the earth, but not close enough ... I'm happy to have seen a glimpse into her life. It encourages me to live as radically as I want. Tish's film is a grand one.

Janisse Ray

#20. Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Stephan Pastis

#21. As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking.

Mike Colter

#22. If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

George Clooney

#23. It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

Carter G. Woodson

#24. Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?

Janisse Ray