Jackie Howard Quotes & Sayings

In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman. — Kate Del Castillo

Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything. — Melina Marchetta

They were the children of the Jackie Robinson elite, whose parents rose up out of the ghettos, and the sharecropping fields, went out into the suburbs, only to find that they carried the mark with them and could not escape. Even when they succeeded, as so many of them did, they were singled out, made examples of, transfigured into parables of diversity. They were symbols and markers, never children or young adults. And so they come to Howard to be normal - and even more, to see how broad the black normal really is. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

After all, this situation, a similar one, is bound to roll around again, in a different context, a different history. Everything does. And the next time, will we (humankind) recognise it and do better? — Doris Lessing

Being a girl doesn't make you weak, Parker. It makes you special. — Ali Novak

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things, — Rafael Nadal

It doesn't matter how old you get. A hug from your mother always helps. — Lilliana Anderson

No one answers. It feels as if I'm not there, as if I'm as invisible as the nicotine they're inhaling. — Ida Lokas

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. — Carol Alt

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. — Giacomo Leopardi

Only two or three months ago, one of the Tokyo newspapers (I can't remember which) admirably reported that a two hundred inch astronomical telescope in America was halfway toward completion. I should like to praise the editor of that newspaper. Articles about war, foreign affairs, and the stock market are not the only things that should be considered newsworthy. A two hundred inch lens can magnify our view of the cosmos considerably. The scope of human vision will expand tremendously. It will become possible to see what was once impossible to behold. It will be a momentous occasion, as though the whole human race, once blind, is granted the gift of sight. Its importance is unrivalled by any war. — Rampo Edogawa

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to. — Dan Bejar

We are all dying of life. — John Jakes

To my way of thinking, when you give your total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner. — John Wooden

Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical. — Ian Fleming

Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not. — Wayne Dyer

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? — Norton Juster