What A Sad Little Life Jane Quotes

#1. I'd rather be happily single than unhappily married.

Heather Graham

#2. Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser

#3. Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

Chris Cleave

#4. How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Theodore Dreiser

#5. Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

John Ruskin

#6. Please," he begged, though he knew not for what. He'd never asked anything of anyone. Never put himself in such a vulnerable position. But he had no pride at this moment. He was utterly slain by her gentleness.

Aja James

#7. On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.

Victor Hugo

#8. I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

Dorothy McGuire

#9. Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

John Raleigh Mott

#10. I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try that. Hey, mom, I want to be on TV!' And she's like, 'OK, let's get you an agent.'

Benjamin Stockham

#11. I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

Jamal Lewis

#12. Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.

Jonathan Galassi

#13. How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.

Antisthenes

#14. Rage twisted his features. He would hurt her now, and badly, she knew that. Crack. The whip made a sound like thunder. The coil took Viserys around the throat and yanked him backward. He went sprawling in the grass, stunned and choking.

George R R Martin

#15. The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

William Shenstone