Janeva Sharps Quotes & Sayings

By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was small and easy to miss, and the antique feel of the place wasn't the prepackaged, old-shit-on-the-wall nostalgia that came with so many chain restaurants. The cafe was just old, and everything about it said old. But Jon liked it that way, if only because it kept the tourists away and spared him from hearing imported ignorance when there was plenty of local ignorance to go around. — Scott B. Pruden

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.' — Henry Miller

It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly. — Dylan McDermott

When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended. — Iain Pears

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I guess the last remaining question is: What about the sombrero? It's still there, lying in the street but its temperature had returned to -24 degrees and fortunately for America it stayed there. Millions of tourists have walked all around it but not one of them has seen it, though it is in plain sight. How can you miss a very cold white sombrero lying in the Main Street of a town? In other words: There is more to life than meets the eye. — Richard Brautigan

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home. — Winston Churchill

In that silence, I dream to be. — Khadija Rupa

I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community. — Wayne Jacobsen

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. — Banksy

I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it. — John Wright

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things. — Tom Kite

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching. — Brian Eno

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed. — John Banville