Jane Rule Quotes

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

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• Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Real

• Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Heart
  • She
  • Dream

• Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • You
  • Hair

• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • You
  • Stick

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Know
  • Model
  • Write

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Loved

• I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Mother
  • Woman
  • Problems

• I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• And to get that much talent in the show-and to keep it constant and consistent-I think is a remarkable feat.

  

  Anthony Head

• The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Earth
  • Imagination
  • Equality

• Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Past

• Water were your limbsAnd the fire was your hairAnd then the moon caught your eye,and you rose through the air.Well if you've seen true light,then this is my prayer:Will you call meWhen you get there?

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • True
  • Light
  • Water

• It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Spiritual

• No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • See
  • Noses

• President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Future

• Uber is a phenomenal company.

  

  David Drummond

• Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

  

  Jane Rule