Jeanice Townsend Quotes

#1. Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

Virginia Woolf

#3. Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

Ram Dass

#4. My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.

Gail Simmons

#5. Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

Lawrence Bender

#6. The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Max De Pree

#7. I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

Chris Carmack

#8. According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Allen Tate

#9. This blessed gift of smoking!

H.G.Wells

#10. I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.

Lizzy Caplan

#11. There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

Paul Weller

#12. It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

G.K. Chesterton