Top 100 Quotes About Jessi
#1. In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.
Lee Ann Womack
#2. Jessi: This is Jesus this is my new number Jessi: Jessi Me: I was shocked that Jesus felt like I was a close enough friend to give me his number...
Scotty Roberts
#3. Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings
#4. You know ... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.
Jessi Kirby
#5. It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person.
Jessi Kirby
#6. All our firsts, and our lasts, and everything in between. They swirl and dance on the invisible currents, and then one by one, they disappear to a place they will always be a part of.
Jessi Kirby
#7. It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.
Jessi Klein
#8. I opened my mouth to respond, then decided to do that thing where you think before you speak.
Jessi Kirby
#9. It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.
Jessi Kirby
#10. I wanted to structure a day where a hypothetical random snapshot of me looked like Carrie Bradshaw in her kimono, totally relaxed, not Brittany Murphy in Girl, Interrupted, diddling an old chicken under her bed. The
Jessi Klein
#11. I can't promise the universe is gonna tell you what to do with your life up there. But if you can keep quiet and listen close enough, for long enough, it may whisper something you need to hear.
Jessi Kirby
#12. Some things need to be said. And sometimes they require strong words.
Jessi Kirby
#13. The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening.
Jessi Colter
#14. This was when I learned one of the biggest secrets of being a woman, which is that much of the time, we don't feel like we're women at all.
Jessi Klein
#15. I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples, far out at sea.
They just gain strength over time.
Jessi Kirby
#16. Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.
Jessi Kirby
#17. We found our own synchronicity together, his heart thumping out a slow. steady beat and mine filling in the spaces between
Jessi Kirby
#18. I haven't stopped thinking about Orion, and it's made a mess of me. Nothing happened between us. Nothing physical, anyway. We never touched, and after a while, we hardly even spoke. But I felt different.
Jessi Kirby
#19. Questions are dangerous territory for us.
Jessi Kirby
#20. It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.
Jessi Colter
#21. She has no idea how careless I've already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does.
Jessi Kirby
#23. I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.
Jessi Colter
#24. It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
Jessi Colter
#25. You're okay," she says. "It's just your first time back out here. You don't need to go back.
Jessi Kirby
#26. Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.
Jessi Kirby
#28. [I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.
Jessi Kirby
#29. As a wolf, I'm a diamond in the rough. I crack jokes. My whole life is about trying, about speaking up in order to be seen, about howling with laughter or howling out how I see the world.
Jessi Klein
#30. Today feels different because yesterday was different.
Jessi Kirby
#31. You know how Bed Bath & Beyond sells those white noise machines that help you sleep? And they usually make ocean noises? I want one that's just David Gergen gently muttering about the economy.
Jessi Klein
#32. But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it's happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it's scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it's worth it.
Jessi Kirby
#33. Sometimes ... a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for.
Jessi Kirby
#34. Color is powerful. It is almost physiologically impossible to be in a bad mood when you're wearing bright red pants.
Jessi Arrington
#35. Do what I tell you, when I tell you, and the worst thing that'll happen is you'll fall in love.
Jessi Kirby
#36. Little victories, they're the ones that counts.
Jessi Kirby
#37. There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.
Jessi Colter
#39. tip Use colored leg bands to keep track of different aged chickens of the same breed.
Jessi Bloom
#40. I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does.
Jessi Klein
#41. I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?
Jessi Klein
#42. But when's the last time you took a chance? Or didn't do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn't have?
Jessi Kirby
#43. I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.
Jessi Colter
#44. The days passed, one after another, measured out in an unbroken, never-ending rhythm.Seemingly infinite, but gone in the blink of an eye - like waves crashing on the shore, or the seasons passing.
Or the beating of a heart.
Jessi Kirby
#45. A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hair, and he way we pull each other closer. Everything else falls away, and in this moment, when we touch, we are light.
Jessi Kirby
#46. Every choice has the power to affect your life later on in ways you can't go back and change.
Jessi Kirby
#47. Before I can respond, he takes his hand from behind his back. Holds it out to me. And I break, into a million invisible pieces.
He looks up from me to the sunflower in his hand and back again. "Um...
Jessi Kirby
#48. You know what? You had a rough weekend, but people are basically good. They really are. We're all just on this crazy blue marble together.
Jessi Klein
#49. Because when these tiny little things are afraid, they shine.
Jessi Kirby
#50. In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
Jessi Colter
#51. Quinn, I..." He whispers the words, unfinished, into my mouth as the space between us disappears and our lips finally touch. A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hairm and the way we pull each other closer
Jessi Kirby
#52. Women have problem areas in a way that men don't. We have big hips and muffin tops. Men just have the thing where they create wars and wreak havoc all over the globe.
Jessi Klein
#53. We should get these wet clothes off," I say conscious now of the cold.
A smile breaks over Colton's face. He raises an eyebrow. "Yeah?
Jessi Kirby
#55. If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again ... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.
Jessi Klein
#56. I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.
Jessi Klein
#57. To find love is rare but can be true if found unconditionally without any regreat look to the present and their you will find love
Jessi Hersey
#58. People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth - the real version - one you could only write yourself if you were willing to.
Jessi Kirby
#59. If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.
Jessi Klein
#60. We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.
Jessi Kirby
#61. I spent the first few months under the full weight of those regrets, thinking of a thousand different things I would've done differently had I known they were going to be the last.
Jessi Kirby
#62. Our first kiss was soft, sweet. A question on my lips. He tasted like the watermelon bubble gum he was always chewing, and the stolen summer night.
Jessi Kirby
#63. That's what seems the most sad to me - that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together.
Jessi Kirby
#64. I've got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold. It is my one wild and precious life, after all.
Jessi Kirby
#65. After four years we know each other's hearts and souls. We've grown and loved and fought and everything in between, which is why, to talk about who I am, I have to start with him. The person I am now, and who I want to be in the future, is wrapped up tight in Shane, and in us together.
Jessi Kirby
#66. We lie together, quiet, under an endless sky, beside a bottomless ocean, and we don't talk about how these are all the things that brought us together. We don't talk about how we wouldn't change any of them.We don't have to, because these are the things we know by heart.
Jessi Kirby
#67. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
Jessi Kirby
#68. In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on.
Jessi Kirby
#69. She has that kind of manic focus about her, like if she just keeps moving, the things she's upset about can't catch her.
Jessi Kirby
#70. Taking a chance can be worth a lot more than you know.
Jessi Kirby
#71. It's easy to forget to look up when all you do is focus on the road straight ahead.
Jessi Kirby
#72. Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.
Jessi Kirby
#73. I can't say I wasn't hoping for it, but I didn't see it coming.
Jessi Kirby
#74. Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
Jessi Klein
#75. We didn't say anything as we ducked though the bushes and when we stood next to the car I could tell he was searching, maybe for the right thing to say. But there wasn't any right thing.
Jessi Kirby
#76. What I mean is,how does he somehow know to show me things I didn't realize I needed to see, or take me places I wouldn't have guessed I needed to go?
Jessi Kirby
#77. I want this day to be my fresh start. I want this to be the day I step out of my comfort zone and go somewhere new.
Jessi Kirby
#78. The real measure of how passionate she is about something is whether she invokes an f-bomb.
Jessi Kirby
#79. He always told me to look strong even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes that's all you can do.
Jessi Kirby
#80. My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend.
Jessi Klein
#81. This is the lament of older women, and ultimately of all old people - that you become invisible. It is especially hard for women, though, whose entire lives have been spent spinning around the idea that if no one is staring at you, you've somehow failed.
Jessi Klein
#82. Everyone wants the people to end up together in the end. It's human nature. The funny thing is, you always know they're going to. You just never know how.
Jessi Kirby
#83. One often meets her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it.
Jessi Kirby
#84. There's motion, like taking action or moving forward. There's evolution-that's growing or changing with life. And then there's illumination, which is understanding or knowing.
Jessi Kirby
#85. I was a woman sobbing in a hotel corridor, which is kind of incredible, because when I was little I thought I was going to be a senator.
Jessi Klein
#86. The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.
Jessi Klein
#87. I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.
Jessi Colter
#88. I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.
Jessi Klein
#89. I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.
Jessi Kirby
#90. What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.
Jessi Colter
#91. But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life.
She'd betrayed him.
He smiled faintly.
Karen Marie Moning
#92. I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.
Jessi Klein
#93. I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.
Jessi Colter
#94. I'd give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could keep it safe always. Where even time couldn't erase it.
Jessi Kirby
#95. I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were standing on the beach anymore. It felt like we were balanced on a thin, thin line. That fragile one that divides the invisible space between something and nothing, or before and after.
Jessi Kirby
#96. We are made of our pasts, and our pains, our joys and our losses. It's in the very fiber of our beings. Written on our hearts.
Jessi Kirby
#97. I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.
Jessi Kirby
#98. It's too much, this. Life, and love, and how fragile it all is.
Jessi Kirby
#99. But almost moments don't count, and it all comes down to the choices I could've made but didn't.
Jessi Kirby
#100. It's not actually making the choice that take courage. It's facing it afterward.
Jessi Kirby
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