Joe Turners Come And Gone Quotes

#1. If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#2. Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.

May Sarton

#3. Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#4. But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked
About by body: there's in things a void-
Which to have known will serve thee many a turn,
Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt,
Forever searching in the sum of all,
And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.

Lucretius

#5. The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

Francois Rabelais

#6. I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has to do with who they were at that time and what their personalities were like and what their strengths and weaknesses were.

Glenn Close

#7. The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

David Foster Wallace

#8. There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Carl Jung

#9. He moves like a dancer.

Lisa McMann

#10. Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.

Leila Janah

#11. Journalists assigned to an issue often cover the coverage, creating the notorious media echo chamber.

Steven Pinker

#12. I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

Jim Steranko

#13. You're hot, I'll give you that, but you kind of ruin it when you open your mouth.

Nyrae Dawn

#14. Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

Peter Hollingworth