Charactersnot Quotes & Sayings

MATTIE FAE: I'm still very sexy, thank you very much. VIOLET: You're about as sexy as a wet cardboard box, Mattie Fae, you and me both. Don't kid yourself. — Tracy Letts

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. — Jane Austen

Give more than your everything or you'll amount to nothing. — Gina L. Maxwell

In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization. — John Sculley

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard. — Haruki Murakami

I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They don't need a producer to come in there and tell them, "Oh, I think you should do this." I've always found it very strange that there's been such a thing as producers in jazz. — Christian McBride

The images of the Jubilee traditions highlight the fact that in Christ people are met by the healing, freeing, redeeming presence of God at their points of greatest pain. The redemptive work of Christ is depicted as touching all of human life. The Jubilee images point towards God's liberating and healing intent wherever institutions, customs, or physical conditions are seen to limit human life. Divisions between sacred and secular are removed. The political, economic, and social realities of life do not provide mere illustrations of the way in which God's reign is experienced. Rather they are identified as the precise arenas where the impact of God's reign is felt. — Sharon H. Ringe

But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known. — Claire Legrand