Tracina Jackson Quotes

#1. Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#2. we're responsible for our own lives.

Stephen R. Covey

#3. Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as ... a climber ... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.

Pat Ament

#4. Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. You only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters.

Mike Massimino

#6. My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.

Jamie Oliver

#7. Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

Stephanie Mills

#8. They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

Malcolm X

#9. (reading a candy label to her little sister) these are 90% sugar, 10% baking soda, and 0% good for you.

Lydia

#10. I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

Madeleine Peyroux

#11. Friedrich kissed the top of her head. "Yes, before I fell in love with you," he said, sounding quite sheepish. "After that I grew quite stubborn about wanting to woo you rather than to buy your affections." "And

K.M. Shea

#12. Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

George Eliot