Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Environment

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Couple

• Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Proud
  • Best
  • Training

• I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Women

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.

  

  Washed Out
  • Simple
  • Philosophy
  • Possible

• It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Never Too Late

• There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • City
  • Moving
  • Perspective

• When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • God
  • Long
  • Heaven

• I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Women

• In the past, socializing men to become the best killer-protectors led to the survival of the 'fittest.' In the future, with nuclear technology, training killers is more likely to lead to the destruction of everyone.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Future
  • Past

• It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • True
  • Science
  • Growth

• I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Time
  • Player

• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  

  Daniel Webster

• What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Home

• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Death
  • Mankind
  • Providence

• I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough

• Some people see me as a rabble-rouser. Some people see me as someone who does not care about what other people think about me.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • People

• The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reality

• I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

  

  Jayne Anne Phillips