Jennifer Fallon Quotes

#1. we don't have a god of bloody stupid ideas

Jennifer Fallon

#2. I am a philosopher in the natural sciences. Matters of the heart I leave to the poets, but it has occurred to me, as a failed poet myself, that the cruelest aspect of love is its inviolable integrity. We do not choose to love - or I should say, we cannot choose not to love. Do you understand?

Rick Yancey

#3. It's good common sense, your grace.'
Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja.

Jennifer Fallon

#4. In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.

Amy Heckerling

#5. The tea-infused steam was another smell that brought back a fistful of memories, and I let them come. Better to open the door for them, even if they are sad, than to let them burn your house down from the outside.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#6. Unless you can start some worldwide crime wave, I haven't the strength to defy him.

Jennifer Fallon

#7. I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most ... you could play with worlds more.

Jennifer Fallon

#8. Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth - Persian Proverb

Jennifer Fallon

#10. Don't tie yourself in knots trying to predict the future.

Jennifer Fallon

#11. And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.

Jennifer Fallon

#12. As regards to personal safety, you do have to be careful not to put yourself at risk when travelling in South Africa. You don't want to go out exploring at night, for example.

Wilbur Smith

#13. It was almost as if he enjoyed the fact that the more agitated his opponent was, the more serene he became. Belagren's thoughts about Antonov in The Lion of Senet

Jennifer Fallon

#14. Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan.
Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better.

Jennifer Fallon

#15. I think it was Betsey Johnson that said women dress for other women. If we dressed for men, we'd all run around naked.

Jillian Dodd

#16. A Token"

My lady
fair with
soft
arms, what

can I say to
you - words, words
as if all
worlds were there.

Robert Creeley

#17. Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Ronald Reagan

#18. Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

Jennifer Fallon

#19. Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.

Sharleen Spiteri

#20. I think I have a God complex, and I like moving mountains and writing stories that affect entire worlds, and it's a bit hard to do that in a contemporary setting because you have reality intruding. Whereas, when you set your own reality, you can make up your own rules and do whatever you like.

Jennifer Fallon

#21. I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Jennifer Fallon