Quotes About Jake Barnes

#1. Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

Laozi

#2. Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Anne Lamott

#3. Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

Jack Dee

#5. There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

Meg Cabot

#6. Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

Rick Riordan

#7. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

#8. Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Joel Osteen

#9. The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#10. You'll lose it, if you talk about it

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Jake, who is both fitter and more hedonistic than me, once told me what they say about martinis: "One's perfect. Two's too many. And three's not enough.

Julian Barnes