Jessica Barth Quotes

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

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• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Boys
  • Conservative
  • Weight

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • People
  • Present
  • Meeting

• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Think

• I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Age

• I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friends
  • Talking
  • Relaxing

• Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Friends

• I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Think
  • Values

• I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Living

• If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee!

  

  Ted Nelson

• A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

  

  Larry Wall

• I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Power
  • Faith

• The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.

  

  Darren L Johnson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

  

  Jill Scott
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Grandmother

• 'Well,' his father says, 'I'll say this for Slick Willie, he's brought the phrase out in the open. When I was young you had to explain to girls what it was. They could hardly believe they were supposed to do it.'

  

  John Updike
  • Believe
  • Father

• I watched 'Kill Bill,' like, three times.

  

  Rita Ora

• All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Thoughts
  • Lies

• I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

  

  Jessica Barth