Jill Scott Quotes

I do want love. Genuine love.

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• I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Boring
  • Explained
  • Unexplainable

• I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • She
  • Small
  • Dad

• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Alcohol

• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Sweet

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Group

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Live
  • Lake

• We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Women
  • Culture

• My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

  

  Macy Gray
  • House
  • Deep
  • Red

• In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • American
  • Percent
  • Fertility

• I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Day
  • Always
  • Doing

• Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • High
  • Best

• 'We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.'

  

  Banksy

• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

  

  William Cowper
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Difficult

• For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • Purpose
  • Winning
  • Cutting

• Love had sneaked up on us rather than bursting upon us like cannons and fireworks.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Love
  • Sneaked Up

• Divas need their furs!

  

  Martha Reeves

• I do want love. Genuine love.

  

  Jill Scott