Jenno Quotes

#1. Yes, it would really mean something to be kissed by Jenno.

Peter St. John

#2. In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Colin Firth

#3. Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe.

Jonathan Dunne

#5. Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this ...

Stevie Smith

#6. Perhaps the best guide is treat people, everyone you meet with, with the politeness and consideration with which you would wish them to treat you? - Georgiana Darcy

Janet Aylmer

#7. The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. [It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

Walter Raleigh

#9. More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Lawrence Bossidy

#11. If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Mentioned in
Sixty Days and Counting, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Ralph Waldo Emerson