Jane Green Quotes

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

Jane Green

• Night

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Work
  • Love
  • Genius

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Men
  • Art

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Emotions

• A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Career
  • Seem

• Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Music
  • Stop

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Bring

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Always
  • Things
  • Manager

• We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • She
  • You
  • Confidence

• How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart. It comes down to men who are willing. The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Men
  • Lost
  • Die

• I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • World
  • Great
  • Love

• It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Family
  • Giving

• Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Up
  • Together
  • Night

• We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play.

  

  Jay McShann
  • Night

• I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

  

  Jane Green
  • Night