Jill Scott Quotes

Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

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• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • May
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Stay
  • Valleys

• Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Library
  • Stand
  • Brick

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Love
  • Always
  • Stage

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Play
  • Bible
  • Video Games

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Change
  • Food

• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Achievement
  • Class
  • Size

• There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Powerful
  • Marriage
  • Tools

• I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Me
  • Very

• True life is elsewhere.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Life
  • True

• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

  

  Bil Keane
  • Life
  • Present
  • Gift

• All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.

  

  Ann Petry
  • Life
  • Circle
  • Right Back

• If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Gang

• Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Life
  • Hurt