Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Jeanette Winterson

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• As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Never
  • Cheesy
  • Eggs

• I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Bother

• Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

  

  La India
  • Women
  • Always
  • Gotta

• I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Direction

• At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Reading
  • Crazy
  • View

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Bad

• I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Think

• I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • Always
  • Praise

• Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Hate
  • Feelings
  • Too Much

• Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Cellphone

• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • History
  • Justice

• I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Future
  • Like
  • Wonder

• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Words
  • Control

• Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right. It means seeing our foreign assistance as part of our national security, not something separate, not charity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Power
  • Military

• I do not care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a zebra. I'm the manager of this team, and I say he plays. What's more, I say he can make us all rich. And if any of you cannot use the money, I will see that you are all traded.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Black

• All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Lies

• I am not gonna die because I failed as someone else. I am gonna succeed as myself. And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • American
  • Girl

• Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites the spirit of revelation, of testimony.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Music
  • Worship
  • Atmosphere

• Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Earth
  • Blessed

• The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

  

  Jeanette Winterson