Jayne Cortez Quotes

#1. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Gordon Banks

#2. Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were.

Susan Glaspell

#3. Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.

Jayne Cortez

#4. I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

Edie Falco

#5. Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Peter Benenson

#6. In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I'm very much a jazz poet.

Jayne Cortez

#7. Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

Wynton Marsalis

#8. I am essence of Rose Solitude
my cheeks are laced with cognac
my hips sealed with five satin nails
I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
flames
between the musk of fat
and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

Jayne Cortez

#9. The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

Lawrence Kasdan

#10. No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Andrew Jackson

#11. The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea.

Edward Rutherfurd

#12. You know, the Tea Party is a - first of all, it is a significant movement, and I think the media and some pundits have tried to write it off as a bunch of cranks or something. But, in fact, it's really a very legitimate and fairly significant swath of voters out there.

Mark McKinnon

#13. John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.

Brian Kilmeade

#14. I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

Pat Buckley