Jordie Quotes

#1. When we've got the puck, they can't score.

Paul Coffey

#2. The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right - and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.

Azar Nafisi

#3. I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.

James Ransone

#4. I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things ... In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5. You do. Jordie Thomas is not a take-home-to-Momma kind of man." "No, he isn't," she agreed. "But he is a fuck-you-stupid kind of man.

Toni Aleo

#6. I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

Geoff Thompson

#8. Field experiments to date have shown that microfinance - the provision of small loans, typically to women or groups of women - is not particularly effective in reducing poverty.14

Dani Rodrik

#9. To represent the United States in international competition is special recognition that not many players receive and I am really looking forward to helping USA Basketball regain its status in international basketball.

Jermaine O'Neal

#10. Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

Brian McKnight

#11. The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#12. What do you want then?
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. Brick by brick.

Brick by brick, I will destroy you.

"It was the promise that let him sleep at night, that drove him every day, that kept Jordie's ghost at bay. Because a quick death was too good for Pekka Rollins.

Leigh Bardugo

#14. Some days I just think the whole world and life and everything is stupid. And that's 'cause I be missing you.

Jacqueline Woodson

#15. As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

Robert Genn

#16. If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Ray Kroc

#17. Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

Bill Hader

#18. Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.

Winsor McCay

#19. Why does your head look like that?" "Like what?" he asked, confused as she squinted up at him like he stunk. "You're usually cleaner about your beard and hair. You look like Jesus hanging from the cross, Jordie.

Toni Aleo