Jankey Quotes & Sayings

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman. — Milan Kundera

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting. — Ian Astbury

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest? — Nazim Hikmet

I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I 'should' want. Sometimes there is no 'should,' there's only a single chance to grab on to happiness. — Nalini Singh

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. — Voltaire

I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not. — Claire Danes

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. — Christopher Morley

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them. — Anatole France

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.' — David Ives

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine. — Margaret Atwood