Carrie Jones Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
-
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
-
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
-
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
-
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
-
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
-
I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
-
I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
-
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
-
I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
-
I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
-
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
-
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
-
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
-
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
-
This Islam business kidnapped me.
-
Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
-
Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.
-
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
-
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.
-
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.
-
Tell Me Whom You Love and I'll Tell You Who You Are
