Javonne Beard Quotes & Sayings

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it. — Madonna Ciccone

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original. — Demetri Martin

Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind. — Emily Dickinson

As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect. — Richard Dawkins

War teaches us honesty. Honesty with ourselves. For war is a merciless debunker; it debunks great and small alike....When bombs are crashing and fires raging, people are exactly what they are -- nothing more, nothing less. At such times you have the sensation of standing morally naked in public, and you will never be able to forget it, try as hard as you may. — Rulka Langer

I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual. — Jonathan Winters

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs] — George R R Martin

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need. — Andrew Mitchell

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. — Saskya Pandita

It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful. — Benjamin Alire Saenz