Jems Gardens Quotes & Sayings

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. — John Leonard

I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word 'women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia."
"Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores. — Patricia Briggs

If Christianity gave rise to science between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, then you could give religion credit for everything that humans devised in that period. — Jerry A. Coyne

Lana was good for my ego. She was good for everything. Too bad I was straight. And then there was the whole 'cousin' thing — Jen Frederick

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. — Christopher Gorham

Remember, Shaw, that the power of the dagger lies not only in the visual, but also the symbolic. — Carla Trueheart

But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things. — Jonathan Franzen

We had to go to stew school for five weeks. We'd go through a whole week of make-up and poise. I didn't like this. They make you feel like you've never been out in public. They showed you how to smoke a cigarette, when to smoke a cigarette, how to look at a man's eyes. Our teacher, she had this idea we had to be sexy. One day in class she was showing us how to accept a light for a cigarette from a man and never blow it out. When he lights it, just look in his eyes. It was really funny, all the girls laughed. — Studs Terkel

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. — Francois Arago

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city. — Sam Childers