Wharlest Jackson Quotes

#1. careful scientific studies have revealed that a lot of conscious "decisions" that we think we make are actually rationalizations after the fact.

A. David Redish

#2. I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

Sheila Kaye-Smith

#3. To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'

Catherine O'Hara

#4. There weren't enough tears to cry.

Morgan Matson

#5. A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it.

Alastair Cook

#6. It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Fredric Jameson

#7. When kids make gross face,
parents say, "One day
your face is going to stick like that."
I'm afraid that one day
my panic's going to stick
and it's going to be my entire life,
every second,
and there will be nothing else.

Samantha Schutz

#8. This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

Geoffrey Rush

#9. Little bundle of contradictions

Anne Frank

#10. I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

Miguel Syjuco

#11. I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

Peter Lindbergh

#12. Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. A promise was law; a promise was currency; a promise was your bond.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

W. H. Auden