Jawns Quotes & Sayings

Spring: trees flying up to their birds — Paul Celan

What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late. — Jessica Zafra

But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it. — Herman Melville

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. — Berthold Auerbach

Together, we're going to finish the job we started. — Barack Obama

We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble. — Barry Humphries

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. — Charles Ludlam

For whatever reason, your rapey Spidey sense is tingling. — Elizabeth Little

girls were killed? "You needed to see — Kendra Elliot

This is a sad, sweet story that has inspired many versions in films through the years (including Kunal Kohli's Mujhse Dosti Karoge!). — Anupama Chopra

No girl I knew, in other words, had babies, but more than a few had had abortions. I'd attended two abortions before my own. I'd been invited along to do the driving, and hold the hands, and sit afterward in the bars and fetch the drinks. The boyfriends, though informed of our activities, were never present. Abortions are women's work, I guess. — Heidi Julavits

This implies two very strange rules for VCs. First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund. This is a scary rule, because it eliminates the vast majority of possible investments. (Even quite successful companies usually succeed on a more humble scale.) This leads to rule number two: because rule number one is so restrictive, there can't be any other rules. — Peter Thiel