Janzair Quotes & Sayings

Creativity ... involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye. — Oliver Sacks

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation. — Jean Arthur

It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.) — Christopher Moore

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion. — Samuel Johnson

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone De Beauvoir

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage. — Howard Raiffa

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being. — Dalai Lama XIV

I was confident, but I still loved a good stroking. Pun one hundred percent abso-fucking-lutely intended. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married or they don't get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realize they would have done it the same, and then they die. — Matt Haig

Many Sufis are not guides. — Idries Shah

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies. — Jose Manuel Barroso

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. — Erin Morgenstern

Mr. James Mooney investigated this interesting phenomenon and actually discovered the Seer, who proved to be an inoffensive visionary dwelling in a remote valley of the Southwest. This young man's life and theories (a full-blood, apparently untouched by Christian influence), curiously resembled those of Christ, and like the latter, he preached the doctrines of Nonresistance and the Brotherhood of Man. In this case our government played the part of Rome. — Carl Sandburg

An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the hazards of life. You are unconsciously bored by living without loving, and convinced in spite of yourself by the examples of others. You have overcome all life's fears, and are no longer content with the gloomy happiness which pride affords: you have conceived an ideal without knowing it. — Stendhal