Skip James Quotes

#1. Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Tom Waits

#2. A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

Gloria Steinem

#3. Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.

Orison Swett Marden

#4. We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

Tilman J. Fertitta

#5. The first doesn't necessarily the last, but it will always be the first, and that's special. Firsts are special.

Jenny Han

#6. One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

James McAvoy

#7. The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

David Sedaris

#8. I need you to love me the same way
the moon orbits around the earth,
without intention to stop.

"Confessing the heart

Alaska Gold

#9. If you won't talk to them,

Stylo Fantome

#10. I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Michelangelo

#11. Well, most people would have said 'thank you' after they'd been given help, and then I would have responded to that with 'you're welcome'. I figured we'd skip straight to my part since social graces aren't your forte.

Heather James

#12. I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.

James Frey

#13. A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

Don Cupitt

#14. If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Jean Genet