Alison Jolly Quotes

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

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• I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Mistake
  • Big
  • Over

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Book
  • Desire
  • Language

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Paint

• I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • High
  • Think
  • Game

• Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Bored

• Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Justice

• Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I had sworn to administer justice 'faithfully and impartially.' To do otherwise would be to violate my oath. That meant I had no business of imposing my personal views on the country. Nor did I have the slightest intention of doing so.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Country
  • Business
  • Justice

• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God
  • Why

• In'ards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Patience

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• I think people do expect something a little weird to happen. Maybe they've seen something I did once on the Internet and expect that I'm gonna do that every night.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Night
  • Weird

• I wasn't banned from skiing but didn't go much in college because I couldn't afford it, and there just wasn't the time. I played football all winter, then in summer I did track and field and played volleyball.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Time
  • College
  • Football

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Way
  • Regret
  • Act

• Lands for the purposes of pleasure and magnificence, parks, gardens, public walks, &c. possessions which are every where considered as causes of expence, not as sources of revenue, seem to be the only lands which, in a great and civilized monarchy, ought to belong the crown.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians, all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other's homes in so many places in the world?

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

  

  Alison Jolly
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Comeback