Jane Jacobs Quotes
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
Quotes to Explore
-
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
-
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
-
Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
-
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
-
Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
-
There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
-
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
-
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
-
It was a labor of love and they did really well.
-
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
-
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
-
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
-
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
-
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
-
There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
-
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
-
I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
-
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
-
What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.
-
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
-
I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.
-
Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.
-
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
-
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
