Jessie J Quotes

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

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• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Love
  • Age
  • College

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Fear

• Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Book
  • Picture
  • Memories

• Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Girl
  • Poverty

• My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Try

• We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Circumstances

• I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Great
  • May
  • Me

• There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Stars

• You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Think
  • You

• I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Choose

• When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Young

• To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Country

• Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Car

• I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Truth
  • Financial

• The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Research
  • Occasions
  • Civil Resistance

• I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

  

  Jessie J