Jenna Wortham Quotes

Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive.

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• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Solitude
  • Thoughtful

• You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Try

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Age
  • Group
  • Belong

• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Small
  • Lose
  • Aim

• In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Exercise

• In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Simple

• Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Character
  • Mad

• It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Hope
  • Age

• I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • High
  • Wish
  • Stupid

• The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Path

• We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Career
  • Single
  • Influence

• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• I've always liked new writing.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Writing
  • Always
  • New

• I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • School
  • Culture
  • Ambition

• Nothing against Nicki Minaj - I think she's a dope lyricist, and her body is perfect, along with a dope personality. But I'm more into a woman who's not so much into the spotlight.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Personality

• I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Brain

• Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Lies

• For the Buddha and Early Buddhism, this is above all the defining crisis at the heart of the human condition: we are bound to a chain of rebirths, and bound to it by nothing other than our own ignorance and craving. The pointless wandering on in saṃsāra occurs against a cosmic background of inconceivably vast dimensions. The period of time that it takes for a world system to evolve, reach its phase of maximum expansion, contract, and then disintegrate is called a kappa (Skt: kalpa), an eon.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Ignorance
  • Buddha
  • Expansion

• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

  

  Bob Hope
  • Age

• Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive.

  

  Jenna Wortham