Jalada Quotes & Sayings

If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge. — Sidney Lumet

She wasn't comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business. — Ann Brashares

Dorcas belonged, as I now realize, to that vast group of women (which may, indeed, include all women) who betray us - and to that special type who betray us not for some present rival but for their own pasts. — Gene Wolfe

One becomes vulnerable when one stops to think about winning, losing, taking advantage, impressing or disregarding the opponent. When the mind stops, even for a single instant, the body freezes, and free, fluid movement is lost. — Kisshomaru Ueshiba

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing. — P.J. Harvey

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret. — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation. — Alan W. Watts

We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication. — Emil Cioran

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them. — Northrop Frye

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers. — Alison Gopnik

Emotions can either energise you or de-energise you — Mavis Mazhura

Word For The Day PICAYUNE (PIK uh yoon') adj. Trivial or petty, small or small-minded. — Deb Baker

I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what. — Nick Diaz

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger. — Dr. John