Jenema Quotes

#1. I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#2. I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Kenneth Langone

#3. I went to college. Got a master's degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys."
She gave her grandmother a wry look. "You know, the usual girly stuff.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#4. There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Delia Smith

#5. The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure.

James Gates Percival

#6. Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home ...

Tom Hardy

#8. The darkness isn't so frightening with Ryan. With him I can believe that I am a princess with a wreath of flowers and ribbons crowning my head and he is my prince sworn to protect me from the evils in the night.

Katie McGarry

#9. Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.

Charles Koch

#10. God made a real good joke
but I am the Best Jokejacket:
Petra Hermans

Petra Hermans

#11. I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

Gabrielle Zevin

#12. She felt such fury and pain she thought she'd choke on it.

Catherine Coulter

#13. Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.

Claude Monet