Jakezan Quotes & Sayings

The only good thing was that by midnight, even most of the bums had gone home to sleep it off. That was lucky for them, because Ray was the worst damn driver I'd ever seen. And that was after I jerked his head out of the duffel and parked it on the dashboard.
"Gah! That makes it worse!" he told me, as I tried to get the eyes facing forward.
"How can it possibly be worse?"
"Because I got double vision now! Get it off! Get it off!"
He batted at his own head and succeeded in sending it tumbling into Christine's lap. She immediately went into hysterics and slapped it away. The head fell out of the car; Ray hit the brakes and we came to a screeching halt.
"What are you doing?" I screeched, as he hopped out. "There are people firing at us!"
"Tough!" came from somewhere under the car. — Karen Chance

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around. — Leslie Mann

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers. — Greta Gerwig

With trembling eyes, Like a caged bird, From behind the picket-fence, She watched you go. — Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade. — Lytton Strachey

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future. — Ishmael Reed

No! No matter how cut up she was, no matter how many scars on her body, no matter that every man who looked at her thought she was repugnant, she wanted to live! "Lia," Robert asked quietly, "how — Lindsay McKenna

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable. — Jonathan Franzen

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. — R.A. Torrey

there were no more living legends, and thus the young grew up knowing they would never become heroes themselves. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I quit politics because I hated it. — Roger Ailes