Lockjawed Quotes

#1. As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise
and inexplicably
to be envied.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

Bob Holden

#3. Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.

Ed Catmull

#4. All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

David Hockney

#5. I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

T.I.

#6. We don't really change. We finally begin to live a life that is true to our values.

Anthea Syrokou

#7. Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.

Dean Spade

#8. Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Paul Scofield

#9. I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Sharon M. Draper

#10. However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.

Iris Murdoch

#11. He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Arthur Helps

#12. It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

Dolly Parton