Amanda McRaney Jenkins (A.M. Jenkins) Quotes

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Me
  • Rock

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Courage
  • Chance

• One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Best
  • Unique
  • Finish

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Bad
  • Unique
  • Watch

• I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Myself
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Universe
  • Advertising

• Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • World
  • Universe
  • Band

• Be yourself. And every person is unique.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Unique
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Universe

• Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Together
  • Unique
  • Cancer

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Universe
  • Child
  • Gold

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Single
  • Universe
  • Theory

• What are ten, twenty, or thirty millions when the British Empire is at stake? This is an artillery war. We must have every gun we can lay hands upon.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • War
  • Gun

• Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dream

• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Philosophy
  • Only
  • Concrete

• At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to three years. They were supposed to last permanently.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Certain
  • France
  • Autonomy

• It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

  

  Amanda McRaney Jenkins
  • Universe
  • Unique