Top 28 Jellicoe Rd Quotes
#1. I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
Sam Claflin
#2. If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.
Melina Marchetta
#3. He smiled. "Happy anniversary, Samantha Jellicoe. So, Godzilla, or sex?"
Samantha laughed. "How about both?"
"I like that. I get to be Godzilla."
"I guess that makes me Tokyo.
Suzanne Enoch
#4. I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.
Melina Marchetta
#5. I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
Selma Blair
#6. I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.
Harry S. Truman
#7. Men. I saw in Rome a statue of a boy extracting a thorn from his foot; I went my way, and returned in a year's time, and ;here sat the selfsame boy, extracting the intruder still, Is this to be our model?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#8. I've realized the future is different for each of us. For some it's fifty years, for others it's ten months, and sometimes it's just a few minutes. I don't know how long mine is, but I know how I want to spend it.
Romina Russell
#9. Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought
but refused to replace one dogma with another.
Terry Tempest Williams
#10. So, like I asked, what's with the nightie?"
"It smells like what I always think mothers smell like," I tell him honestly, knowing I don't have to explain.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
Melina Marchetta
#11. The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.
Dawson Trotman
#13. Hannah's house has been unfinished ever since I can remember. Deep down I think that's always been a comfort to me, because people don't leave unfinished houses.
Melina Marchetta
#14. The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
William Faulkner
#18. A home to come back to every day of their lives.
Where they would all belong or long to be.
A place on the Jellicoe Road.
Melina Marchetta
#19. I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.
Melina Marchetta
#20. The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe.
Geoffrey Jellicoe
#21. I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.
Melina Marchetta
#23. I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
B.B. King
#24. Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know? Wonder dies.
Melina Marchetta
#25. What's the difference between a trip and a journey?"
"Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.
Melina Marchetta
#28. But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
Melina Marchetta
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