Jessica Williams Quotes

People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Place

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Courage

• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Grow

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Body
  • Opinions

• I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Football
  • Care
  • Easy

• I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Teaching
  • Appreciative

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Failure
  • Most

• I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Short

• Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Said

• It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • True
  • Sad
  • Yourself

• I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Looking Forward

• President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr.

  

  David Garrow
  • Moral
  • King

• Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Sadness

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Work
  • Job
  • College

• I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.

  

  Kelly Corrigan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People