Shevin Jones Quotes

#1. People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Stendhal

#2. The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

John Green

#3. It's not about having a plethora of suits, but having a few good ones. It's all about fit. The contour of your body. If your shoulders are broad, you shouldn't have shoulder pads. If you're not a big man, you shouldn't have extra space. I think it's definitely worth having it properly fitted.

Trey Songz

#4. Either it was when I followed Sylvie across the bridge, and the lake claimed us, or it was when my mother left me waiting for her, and established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. Or it was at my conception.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

Ray Lewis

#6. But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

Thomas Haden Church

#7. A grin lit [Christian's] face. "We're going hunting?

Richelle Mead

#8. It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Ted Shawn

#10. My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#11. In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

Thomas Szasz

#12. In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

Barry Humphries

#13. Advocacy is better served when fellow activists are able to respond in ways that do not build walls or burn bridges. Change takes time and tends to come hard to human beings. Those who understand this human tendency are more effective activists.

Lisa Kemmerer

#14. I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

George Carlin

#15. The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

Vincent D'Onofrio