Jane Roberts Quotes

There aren't any even halfway reasonable dogmas around nowadays, not one that doesn't offend or outrage either the intellect or the intuitions.

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• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fighting
  • Mental Illness

• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Everyday

• I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Space

• This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Organization
  • Uncertainty

• I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Book
  • You
  • Write

• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Competitive

• Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Success
  • Man

• Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Party

• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Point
  • Breaking
  • No Point

• I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • City
  • Attitude

• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Play
  • Investment

• To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Man
  • Like

• I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Write

• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • Same
  • Try

• He wos wery good to me, he wos!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Good

• We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

  

  Franz Kafka

• Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group. No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it.

  

  Willi Unsoeld
  • Alone
  • Group
  • Energies

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Understanding

• If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Fascism
  • Punks
  • Granola

• There aren't any even halfway reasonable dogmas around nowadays, not one that doesn't offend or outrage either the intellect or the intuitions.

  

  Jane Roberts