Jakki Leonardini Quotes & Sayings

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America. — Eliza Leslie

The dam of tears broke again and I cried softly, grateful for the love I didn't deserve because the gift of me didn't seem to be enough. — Denise Grover Swank

The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents. — Dallin H. Oaks

I've started meditating, but I do have a quick temper. — Casey Wilson

Now there's a joy inside I can't contain
But even perfect days can end in rain
And though it's pouring down
I see You through the clouds
Shining on my face. — Francesca Battistelli

To construct plausible and moving 'other worlds' you must draw upon the only real 'other world' we know, that of the spirit. — C.S. Lewis

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either. — Marcus Samuelsson

Living myth is about the experience of the waters parting again in the here and now. As a critical moment opens before us the spirit of life and genius of the soul speaks to us and through us. What was about to crush us suddenly parts before us and we shoot forward with the sudden vitality of life, fueled by the living imagination needed to survive. — Michael Meade

I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Letter to a Young Poet, 1903 — Rainer Maria Rilke

Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. — Walter Scott

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times. — Michelle Rodriguez

Brain size is a unreliable guide to anything — Iain Davidson

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections. — Karl Lagerfeld