Jen Lancaster Quotes
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
Quotes to Explore
-
Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
-
Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
-
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
-
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
-
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
-
My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
-
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
-
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.
-
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
-
What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
-
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
-
We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
-
I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
-
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
-
Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
-
Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
-
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
-
I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
-
Weird clothing is de rigeur for teenagers, but today's generation of teens is finding it difficult to be sufficiently weird. This is because the previous generation of teens, who went through adolescence in the sixties and seventies, used up practically all the available weirdness.
-
I box because my father made me a warrior, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a bad thing, either! After, it became for pleasure, pride, and because it's in my blood. This sports made me the man I am.
-
I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.'
-
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
-
It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.
-
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
