Jayson Quotes & Sayings

I see these lights, every time I look into your eyes. It crosses my heart, and make me feel in love. — Jayson Engay

Scott had some sort of power, or force field. In essence, he was like fucking gay guy repellant. Not a single gay guy would come anywhere near me, let alone talk to or hit on me when he was around. — Jayson James

It's a sin to swear. — Jayson Williams

We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work. — Jayson Engay

You face racism in small and large ways. — Jayson Blair

I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and irresponsible and reckless. I really think this is just a one-time thing. You live and learn. If you do the crime, you do the time, so to speak. With that said, I got a lot going for me. I got a great job, a great career, a great family. This is just a little bump in the road. My spirit's not broke. I'm not down and out by any means. — Jayson Werth

Every day people say you got to move on with your life. You have to move on. And you just can't. — Jayson Williams

People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about. — Jayson Engay

Sorry. Sometimes my mouth engages before making contact with my brain. — Jayson James

What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure. — Jayson Werth

Don't complain if your're facing hard moments in life. Challenge yourself to face it, challenge yourself to beat it. — Jayson Engay

Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think. — Jayson James

An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes. — Jayson Gaignard

It's a time in my life that I'm glad it's behind me. I've had time to reflect on the whole thing. I want to talk about it one time and kind of lay it to rest. I'm ready to put it behind me. I've learned my lesson. I don't recommend the experience I had to anyone, really. It's not something that was fun. It's not a destination you would choose. — Jayson Werth

Wakey wakey eggs and bacey! — Jayson James

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. — Jayson Blair

I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other people are going to have questions about it, but we've got a big season coming up. — Jayson Werth

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie. — Jayson Blair

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation. — Jayson Blair

Whenever you're having a burden in your heart, share it to those people whom you trust. It'll make you feel better. — Jayson Engay

It's loud inside my head, with those words I want to say to you. — Jayson Engay

You're the certainty of my uncertainty. Your significance defines the love and connection I have for you and I wanna thank you because you help me grow to become my full self and contribute meaningfully to this world we're both in. — Jayson Engay

I am here, I will always be here. Watching you, loving you. — Jayson Engay

I lost my way for a long time. — Jayson Williams

Peter Singer put it when discussing the use of biotechnology in food, "It is a mistake to place any moral value on what is natural. I mean many things are natural, including racism, sexism, war, and all sorts of diseases that we try to fight all the time. So the argument about [genetically engineered] food being unnatural and therefore wrong oversimplifies this debate."14 — Jayson Lusk

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way. — Jayson Williams

I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to. — Jayson Williams

We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve. — Jayson Williams

After walking off the field feeling nauseous knowing my wrist was broke and hearing Philly fans yelling 'You deserve it,' and, 'That's what you get,' I am motivated to get back quickly and see to it personally those people never walk down Broad Street in celebration again, — Jayson Werth

What happens this weekend stays between us. We set the rules. — Jayson James

When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command. — Gary Weiss

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case. — Jayson Blair

I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family. — Jayson Williams

What are you doing here, you fuck wad? You know he's up their because of you. — Jayson James

You don't need to understand what the world is, just let your life flow with it and become something — Jayson Engay

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me? — Jayson Blair

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.' — Jayson Blair

Whatever happens right now, it has to happen. — Jayson Engay

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful. — Jayson Blair

I may act like I don't care anymore, but if only you could see me inside, you'll know how much I wanted to be with you. — Jayson Engay

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone
journalist, student, academic
who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths. — David Edelstein

It had not been the first time that we had said something like this to each other. It was not like guys went around saying it all the time to each other, but over the course of the years of being the best of friends; we had said it to each other. Justin had been the one to say it more often to me. It took me quite a few times before I could say it back to him. This was something much deeper and we both knew it. — Jayson James

The nutritional composition of beef provides much-needed protein, vitamins and iron.... Let us also not gloss over what is beef's most obvious benefit: Livestock take inedible and untasty grains and convert them into a protein-packed food most humans love to eat. — Jayson Lusk

No matter what you think, no matter what you say, I will love you always. — Jayson Engay

Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place. — Jayson Engay

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me. — Jayson Williams

Help yourself before you help others. — Jayson Engay

Remember that we're living in a place that is temporary. No matter what you believe in the end of time I don't care about it. As of now.. live your life, cut those negative thoughts and actions, reach your dreams and goals. — Jayson Engay

We gotta show up tomorrow ready to eat somebody's face. — Jayson Werth

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism. — Jayson Blair

I have a beautiful family. I want to be here, for my family. — Jayson Williams

You can't buy the love you want, you can't sell your love. Love is given by those who deserves it. — Jayson Engay

Your thoughts and emotions will dictate the kind of life you will have. — Jayson Engay

Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you. — Jayson Lobo

I'm not what I am, I am who I am. — Jayson Engay

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it. — Jayson Blair

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society. — Jayson Blair

Then, without really realizing it, I start to think of one thing I did wrong for each tree I look at. Wide oak - I didn't tell anyone when Ingrid cut herself. Baby oak - the time I told her I was getting sick of hearing about Jayson's arms and his blue shirt. Tall tree with bare branches - the way I would leave when she got depressed and stopped talking. I should have stayed. I should have just sat quietly , so she knew I was with her. — Nina LaCour

Believe me, I wish I could give you what you want. I have thought about it so many times, but I can't just do it. Maybe I could pretend for a while, but then I wouldn't be being honest with you. We have always been honest with each other. — Jayson James

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly. — Jayson Blair

I can't say anything other than the fact that I feel a range of emotions including guilt, shame, sadness, betrayal, freedom and appreciation for those who have stood by me, been tough on me, and have taken the time to understand that there is a deeper story and not to believe everything they read in the newspapers. — Jayson Blair

I think I'll Look back and go, 'That was a really good career move.' — Jayson Werth

Christians can apply the divine power accessed through Scripture and prayer in several ways. — Jayson Georges

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. — Ted Rall

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree. — Jayson Blair

The day I open my eyes to you, was also the day I open my heart to you. — Jayson Engay

She was the one who would balance us; she was our unity. The beauty to my beast — Christin Lovell

It's not about the external things that surround you, but it's about YOU.
How you operates your life, how you take your path and walk with it. — Jayson Engay

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process. — Jayson Blair

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems. — Jayson Williams

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple. — Jayson Williams

You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially. — Jayson Werth

Where the fuck did she go?" Jayson snarled, coming off his seat.

"Grocery shopping," Hank held up the note.

"Fuck," Bill grumbled.

"We told her she had to tell us. We didn't tell her we had to approve it," Hank sighed.

"You think she went to that store in Port A?" Bill asked.

"Probably not. She's pissed enough to go to China," Hank moaned. "And since she can speak the language, we'll probably have squid in the fridge when she gets back. — Connie Suttle

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better. — Jayson Williams

I just wanna say nothing is permanent in this world, only change — Jayson Engay

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people. — Jayson Williams

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing. — Jayson Blair

I still have that feeling the first time we met every time I see you. — Jayson Engay

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.' — Jayson Williams

I hope you both know you mean a lot to me too. — Jayson James

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's. — Jayson Williams

I don't think there is a person who loves the Nets as much as I do - from our fans, all the employees in the arenas, the front office personnel and the owners. I will always be loyal to our fans and the Nets. — Jayson Williams

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount. — Jayson Blair

It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand mistakes of others. — Jayson Engay

The world may be against us, but this love we have is enough to put this world beneath us. — Jayson Engay

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. — Jayson Blair

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done. — Jayson Blair

I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby. — Jayson Williams

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings. — Jayson Blair

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. — Jayson Blair

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. — Jayson Williams

How the hell did someone fall asleep while they were being spanked? — Christin Lovell

I'll say life is simpler. — Jayson Williams

Learn to accept things, learn to understand things that they're happening because it's for our own good. No matter what happen, just always remember that If that thing didn't happen, I wouldn't be what I am now. — Jayson Engay

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury. — Jayson Williams

That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field - The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed - it all defines to me why baseball is such a magical game — Jayson Stark

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature. — Jayson Blair

Your health is not something you biologically lose as you age. It is something you build or give away a little each day, in what you do, and what you don't do. — Jayson Calton

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring. — Jayson Blair

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities. — Jayson Blair