Jacqueline Winspear Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
-
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
-
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
-
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
-
If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
-
'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
-
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
-
People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
-
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
-
When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
-
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
-
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
-
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
-
I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
-
Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
-
Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
-
In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.
-
The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
-
We hold that the one and only one true basis of society is the frank recognition of these rights of self-ownership; that is to say, of the rights of control and direction by the individual, as he himself chooses, over his own mind, his own body, and his own property, always provided, that he respects the same universal rights in others.
-
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
-
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
-
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
-
It was time to move on, to dance with life again.
