Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Him

• While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Something
  • Admire
  • Prepare

• One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Doing
  • Students
  • Colleagues

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Up
  • War
  • Military

• I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Remember
  • Picture
  • Window

• I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Regret
  • More
  • Beliefs

• I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Design
  • Process
  • Clothes

• Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans are left to fight this battle without the coverage, support, and resources they need.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • Fight
  • Eating

• Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Considered
  • Longer
  • Utah

• I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

  

  G-Eazy
  • School
  • Money
  • Education

• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Wait
  • Late

• Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Right
  • Choose
  • Guest

• Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Know
  • Successful
  • Facebook

• I think that it is becoming more and more clear that the European Union is an indispensable partner in some fields.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Think
  • More
  • Partner

• 'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Live Life

• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Own

• In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Possibility
  • Treatment

• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • People

• I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Time

• My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Writing
  • Friend

• You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Design

• I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

  

  Jewel Kilcher