Jay Kelly Pinkerton Quotes & Sayings

When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it. — Andrea Bocelli

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success. — C. Robert Cargill

The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. — Jane Austen

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan. — Claire Cook

[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. It did not lie between the large and small States: it lay between the Northern and Southern. — James Madison

I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel. — Rick Moody

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor. — Gwendoline Christie

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil. — John Stuart Mill

...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head. — James Fenimore Cooper

[Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested. — Matt Groening

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. — George Santayana

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world. — Mark Nepo

We are handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them. — Seanan McGuire

Alkaloids are natural fungicides, insecticides, and pesticides. It has been estimated that, on average, each of us ingests about a gram and a half of natural pesticide every day, from the plants and plant products in our diet. The estimate for residues from synthetic pesticides is around 0.15 milligrams daily - about ten thousand times less than the natural dose! — Penny Le Couteur