Jane Prentiss Quotes & Sayings

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it. — Joseph Addison

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present. — Yiyun Li

I fall asleep feeling beautiful. Then, in the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like 'You have really pretty eyes.' That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence. It's a feel-good protein shake in my back pocket in case someone messes with me that day. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

If God can make a firefly's butt light up like a star, then anything is possible. Anything. — Charles Martin

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science — Paul Kurtz

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. — Trofim Lysenko

Beauty is boring because it is predictable. — Umberto Eco

I remember one director in Argentina said to me, 'You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.' And I didn't care. I don't have a complex. — Elena Roger

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting. — Tina Turner

Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains. — K.W. Jeter

The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed. — Philip Larkin

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr