Rona Jaffe Quotes

#1. To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation.

Rona Jaffe

#2. Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Robert Anthony

#3. It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.

Rona Jaffe

#4. Girls always think, "I'm going to be the exception," Caroline thought; it's a weakness of the species, like a collie's tiny brain.

Rona Jaffe

#5. I think a lot of women would like to eat like a man, especially on a date. But they're probably afraid to. But a guy would love to see a woman with a healthy appetite. They love seeing women with a healthy appetite.

Michael Urie

#6. Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

George Whitefield

#7. ...they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content.

Rona Jaffe

#8. What are this blind dates?' he asked curiously .
'An old American institution of mismating.

Rona Jaffe

#9. You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.

Rona Jaffe

#10. A blond in a red dress can do without introductions
but not without a bodyguard.

Rona Jaffe

#11. But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing.

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#12. The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm

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#13. You held on to him In that forsaken bed He's distant, cold - Nothing else could be said.

Dawn Lanuza

#14. I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

Noah Baumbach

#15. It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy

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#16. Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.

Bakari Kitwana

#17. I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.

David Chang

#18. A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

T. Boone Pickens

#19. It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all

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#20. Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

Nancy Gibbs

#21. The universe is just like old Sherlock Holmes and hides all of its goodies in plain sight.

Steve Merrick

#22. Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

Donald Hall

#23. Never give up on anything.
If you fail, try, try and try again.
You are learning the best ways of doing things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special

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#25. It isn't intimate or sexual; it's the comfort in finding someone who finally understands.

B.N. Toler

#26. She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.

Rona Jaffe

#27. Boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

Rona Jaffe

#28. I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

Mackenzie Davis

#29. She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

Sara Sheridan