Jakey Quotes & Sayings

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa] — Paul Boateng

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist. — Morgan Spurlock

Sometimes you have to leave someone special without any reason, Sometimes you can't leave the person with thousands of reason to leave — Sid

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. — Madeleine Albright

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers. — Judith Martin

One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot. — John Grisham

During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go home; by third grade, stomachaches had replaced the headaches, but my daily trudge to the infirmary remained the same. — Scott Stossel

Are you ready?" she asked, whispering. "Ready as a drunk virgin on prom night. — Darynda Jones

The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity. — James Hollis

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. — Chogyam Trungpa