Jeanette Epps Quotes

#1. Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Amartya Sen

#2. Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is ... only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

Steve Goodier

#3. I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

Eartha Kitt

#4. Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.
[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]

Paul McHugh

#5. We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves.

Karen Joy Fowler

#6. I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

Patrick Kane

#7. Oh, and don't even fucking think of cheating. If I catch you cheating, I'll cut the bitch's face off and sew it onto your face. That way, if you want to see your bitch so much, you can just look in the mirror.

Bijou Hunter

#8. I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#9. If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

Oscar Wilde

#10. If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person ...

Charles Alexander Eastman

#11. Never leave anything out to dry as the sun comes up for the new year.

Markus Zusak

#12. I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

Alexa Chung

#13. Grandma kept turning around in the front seat of their old Fiat saying, "Look at you girls! On, Lena, you are a beauty!"
Lena seriously wished she would stop saying that, because it was irritating, and besides, how was cranky Effie supposed to feel?

Ann Brashares