Jarrones Quotes & Sayings

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that. — Eartha Kitt

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz

The days went their way like a phantom caravan. They came out of nowhere, early in the morning, without charm or panache, and in the evening they disappeared, surreptitiously, swallowed up by darkness. Nonetheless, children continued to be born, and death still took care of keeping things in balance. — Anonymous

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do. — Takeru Kobayashi

How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse. — Denis Johnson

He felt like a pilgrim standing on the shores of Lake Sahara, having walked barefoot over hundreds of miles, yet all the hardships forgotten, filled with only wonder and reverence at the marvel of it all. — Sherry Thomas

There was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill. — M. Thomas Gammarino

I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me. — Iris Apfel

Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day where their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects know all too well what awaits them when the days of wine and roses - the days of interviews - are over. And still they say yes when a journalist calls, and still they are astonished when they see the flash of the knife. — Janet Malcolm

None of this was real, after all. It was just a refuge in her mind. — Stephen King

Now I know why I've always compared every woman I've ever kissed to you. — K. Bromberg

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. — Socrates

I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen. — Jevon Kearse

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever. For me, the world is simply composed of stories; when I look, that's what I see. — Neil Gaiman

A moral vision must be balanced by the realist dimension of prudence to have a reasonable prospect of success. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.