Jena Malone Quotes

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

Jena Malone

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• I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Eye

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Strong
  • Ideas
  • Ready

• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Sexy

• I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Others

• Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age of 19 to 30, I was this mad, wild person. I just wanted to have a good time, not get serious with anyone. I didn't allow relationships to happen, and I made it clear to whoever I was with.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Good
  • Future
  • Present

• In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Giving

• You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • You
  • Look
  • Boring

• My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Control
  • Sense
  • Intellectual

• 'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • You
  • Know
  • Summer

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Logical

• The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Vision
  • United Nations

• I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Game
  • Year
  • Hollywood

• Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • History
  • Control
  • Practice

• The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Light

• Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Relationship

• I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Desire

• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • People
  • Dream
  • Retirement

• In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

  

  Peter Diamandis

• I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

  

  Jena Malone