Jacques Jontron Quotes & Sayings

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time. — David Crystal

Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you. — Merrit Malloy

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan. — Thomas Jefferson

Too much engenders too much. — Don DeLillo

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking. (Jincy Willett) — Jincy Willett

I urge you to stop remembering what God has forgotten. — Joyce Meyer

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes. — Maxim Gorky

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5. — Claire Danes

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other. — J.G. Ballard

Idiot! You idiot! — Marissa Meyer

people with autism must survive in an outside world where "special needs" is playground slang for "retarded, — Naoki Higashida

That shit was funny, but it ain't right. — Ernessa T. Carter