Jardine Quotes & Sayings

become a director of CamMac, when you're twenty-one. — Quintin Jardine

Elise thinks of Denise's laugh cracking like thunder over the Turnbull houses, the paprika in her chili, the way her bra cuts into her back, the powdery heat of her body when they'd lie on the bed in the summertime, the afternoon too hot for anything but gossip and game shows. Her mother played with Elise's hair like it was her own, absentmindedly twirling it as they smoked. — Jardine Libaire

Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out. — Jardine Libaire

A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand. — Jardine Libaire

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down. — Jardine Libaire

So much of life is about standing on the curb, wiling to see what rolls up. — Jardine Libaire

Your life informs your writing. — Quintin Jardine

Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective. — Mike Love

Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty lavender paradise. — Jardine Libaire

The stuff that changes your life is never very dramatic. You know? Not to other people. — Jardine Libaire

He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest, and that he was more dangerous as a weak person with a lot of power than a powerful person with a lot of power. — Jardine Libaire

There is a splendid story that, during the long sea voyage, Cowdrey was observed by Frank Tyson being addressed with some passion by a well-dressed man whom Tyson didn't recognize: 'When you reach Australia, just remember one thing,' exclaimed the older gentleman, 'Hate the bastards!' Tyson enquired of scorer and baggage man George Duckworth as to the man's identity: 'That," confided the 'bodyline' veteran, 'was Douglas Jardine. — Dave Wilson

Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart. — Jardine Libaire

So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die before we finish our dreams. Acutally, that we die is a pretty big surprise by itself. We can't spend innocence without accounting. Relationships are contracts. We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone. — Jardine Libaire

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world. — Al Jardine

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move. — Al Jardine

There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light. — Quintin Jardine

In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently. — Jardine Libaire

Write from your heart, write with blood and courage. — Olivia Jardine

She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie. — Jardine Libaire

I now doubted myself. Innocencce was finite and could not be regenerated. Like spinal fluid. I knew this because I had run out. — Jardine Libaire

She caught him in his schoolboy mode, polite and dutiful, mailing letters to his grandparents and step-siblings, notes full of nothing written in perfect script. Yet he feels like she caught him so unaware and alone that she saw the other side, the wolf crawling through wreckage, through broken walls, cracked Venetian mirrors, dust, blood, a turned-over rocking horse - the child who doesn't know it's own name. — Jardine Libaire

Jardine is the largest dealer of Mercedes in the world. They also sell cars for two or three Japanese makers. — Ratan Tata

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm. — Al Jardine

I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the exact opposite: what I wanted was to be alive, to escape all the damage, to shed it like snakeskin, to emerge pure and naked and laughing. — Jardine Libaire

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million. — Al Jardine

But Elise eclipses the woman from Jamey's future, the lady in tennis whites flashing her diamond as she drinks orange juice fresh-squeezed by a maid. A woman Jamey never quite believed in anyway. — Jardine Libaire

My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies. — Jardine Libaire

She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars are delicate and immediate, every sound and smell and movement amplified by the lowest light or the lightest darkness. Even a city that's broken and dirty can, in that time, be divine and intimate. — Jardine Libaire

She'd half loved men, and they'd half failed her. — Jardine Libaire

She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to teleport platters of watercress sandwiches from the kitchen to the library, where she's beating her friends at backgammon. — Jardine Libaire

New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going
whether we know it or not, would deny it or not
by the kiss of a stranger. — Jardine Libaire

It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end. — Jardine Libaire

Progress can be unglamorous. — Jardine Libaire

It's like he never wanted anything, but only thought and fretted about what he should want, what other people wanted him to want. — Jardine Libaire

As filthy as any night was, a New York City morning is always clean. The eyes get washed.
Flowers in white deli buckets are replenished. The population bathes, in marble mausoleums of Upper East Side showers, or in Greenwich Village tubs, or in the sink of a Chinatown one-bedroom crammed with fifteen people. Some bar opens and the first song on the jukebox is Johnny Thunders, while bums pick up cigarette butts to see what's left to smoke. The smell of espresso and hot croissants. The weather vane squeaks in the sun. Pigeons are reborn out of the mouths of blue windows. — Jardine Libaire

But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom burning in the sun on our hair and the cigarette in our mouth, unconscious of the daydreams we inspire. Then it's our time to sit at a window and watch, and we are moved. — Jardine Libaire

I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the idea of it the way you blow a dying fire. — Jardine Libaire

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob. — Douglas Jardine

Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched a pussycat playing with stars in a black room. — Jardine Libaire

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. — Al Jardine

The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac. — Jardine Libaire

Robert Louis Stevenson ... was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be — Quintin Jardine

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation. — Al Jardine

The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine. — Mike Love

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job. — Al Jardine

Binkie, the one and only. He can hear her rings clacking on the plastic phone, and he chuckles, envisioning with amusement the bejeweled and suntanned manicured grip his grandmother thinks she has on his balls. And she does. — Jardine Libaire

For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other. — Quintin Jardine

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art. — Douglas Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality. — Al Jardine