Jeneane Quotes & Sayings

It was like giving a Jewish kid a coffee-table book about Auschwitz. — Nell Zink

He kissed me everywhere, not like before, not angry. And God help me, it shouldn't have made a difference, but somehow it did. — C.J. Roberts

You don't know who a person is until you see how he acts when given unexpected power. He hasn't rehearsed for the part. So what you see is what he is. — Orson Scott Card

I can't find the image, I said to myself. I'm thirty, I'm standing still, and I can't find the image. — Haruki Murakami

Boy, do I hate to lose. — Peyton Manning

In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity - and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top. — James Baldwin

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it. — Isabel Allende

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. — Warren Beatty

I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere. — Joel McHale

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s. — Sarah Hall

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for the next generation. While the university's busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you somehow have to produce a boring thesis that no one will read, and find someone willing to publish it as a book. And then, if you're unsually talented and extraordinarily lucky, you just might be able to secure a one-year, nonrenewable appointment teaching remedial composition to football players in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the Internet's booming, and the kids we gave C pluses to are waltzing out of college and getting rich on stock options while we bust our asses for a pathetic stipend that doesn't even cover the rent. — Tom Perrotta

In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter. — Xavier Dolan

The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution. — William O. Douglas

I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want. — Gina Rodriguez

Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name. — David Hewson