Beverly Jenkins Quotes

The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose—there is no cost.

Beverly Jenkins

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• Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Best
  • Teacher
  • Ever

• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • You
  • Things
  • Connections

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Politics
  • Side
  • Lot

• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Discovery
  • June

• For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Support
  • Government
  • Period

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Bad
  • Weapons
  • Mission

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Family
  • Doing
  • Percent

• There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Public Opinion
  • Cowards

• I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Color

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

  

  Karin Tidbeck
  • People
  • Equal
  • Goats

• The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose—there is no cost.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Man
  • Purpose
  • No Cost