Jaquez Smith Quotes

#1. I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.

Lang Leav

#2. Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Veronica Roth

#3. It was heartbreaking ... I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

Eva Longoria

#4. Finnikin had learned over the years not to think of anything beyond the practicalities of getting from one point to another. To focus on the achievable.

Melina Marchetta

#5. I have run two small businesses in Kansas, and I have seen how government can crush entrepreneurism. That's why I ran for Congress. It just so happens that there are a lot of people in south central Kansas who agree with me on that.

Mike Pompeo

#6. Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms - if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

E. O. Wilson

#7. England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

George Orwell

#8. Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided?

Sarah Dessen

#9. 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

Abraham Lincoln