Jitney August Wilson Quotes

#1. Faith can move you over the mountain but
prayers can move the mountain away from you

Ikechukwu Joseph

#2. Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Even if it remained for 10 more years, it is not the commission that will solve the justice situation, it is us, the Guatemalans, who must see if we truly want to fix our institutions, strengthen them and move forward.

Otto Perez Molina

#4. I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

Tatyana Ali

#5. In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.

August Wilson

#6. You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Ian McEwan

#7. You will never achieve anything without a desire.

Euginia Herlihy

#8. I think if a writer is being honest they'd admit to a file full of a dozen or more stories that are all started to varying degrees. They're like the kid who wants to be a firefighter and a police officer and an astronaut.

Dan Alatorre

#9. Love is really the most beautiful show. It can't rehearsed. It can't be planned. It is the product of magic. It is what Vagabond Circus is all about.

Sarah Noffke

#10. Will Rogers once said, "Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."

Joshua Becker

#11. It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.

Elizabeth Scott

#12. I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Sherri Shepherd

#13. I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Thus you get everything from this book that C. S. Lewis would want. The story drives the truth into your heart, and the Scripture behind the story drives it into your mind.

David Jeremiah