Jackleg Quotes & Sayings

A child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime. — Abraham Verghese

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings. — Thomas Starr King

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell. — Kevin Bacon

My fist is her flag still furled. Take the cannoli and leave the tuxedo - This is my jackleg opera to the world. — B.J. Ward

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. — Franz Kafka

The young man was tall and slim. He wore sandals and a bathing suit and a short-sleeved shirt with an alligator emblem stitched to the left breast, which caused Brody to take an instant, instinctive dislike to the man. In his adolescence Brody had thought of those shirts as badges of wealth and position. All the summer people wore them. Brody badgered his mother until she bought him one - "a two-dollar shirt with a six-dollar lizard on it," she said. — Peter Benchley

There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up. — Matthew Healy