Penny Junor Quotes

Becoming pregnant can be difficult at the best of times.

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• I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • She
  • Friend
  • Jazz

• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Free

• The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Challenges

• I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Band
  • Chicago
  • Veteran

• You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Progress
  • Helpful

• I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Thought
  • Grateful
  • Potential

• We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Strong
  • Language
  • Brand

• For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • First

• Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Freedom
  • Human
  • Illusion

• My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Book
  • Organization

• My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Better
  • Speed
  • Serving

• But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Live
  • Day

• My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Mom
  • Church
  • Said

• Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Children
  • Book
  • Soul

• I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• I guess that is my biggest fear, sort of worrying about the fact that I keep getting more insecure as time goes on rather than feeling more grand with each turn. I feel more and more afraid. When I get my picture taken, I'm convinced it's because I must look terrible and they're going to put it in US Weekly as a joke.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • America

• And you speak of a fever, that burns you inside,as you explain to your mother, how you've wanted to die.So she kisses your fingers, and says 'My darling, but why?When there is so much more. There is so much more.'

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Why
  • She
  • Mother

• They

  

  Frances Bean Cobain

• I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Good
  • Character
  • Help

• I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

  

  James Fenton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• “What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • What
  • Going On
  • Roberta

• Becoming pregnant can be difficult at the best of times.

  

  Penny Junor