Jennetta Roberts Quotes & Sayings

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base. — William Arthur Ward

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. — Brenda Ueland

It has been seven years since you died. Of course what I'll say next is that time has flown by. I got old. All of a sudden, de repente. I walk with difficulty. I even drool. I leave the door unlocked in case I die in my sleep, but it's more likely I'll go endlessly on until I get put away someplace. I am already dotty.... It's not so strange that I talk to my cat but I feel silly because he is totally deaf. — Lucia Berlin

The tricky thing about living in a society that allows you freedom is that everyone else has it too. Some people can't handle that. They can't accept their neighbor making a different choice than they did. That's the tricky part, letting someone else have the freedom to choose. A choice isn't really a choice if there is only one option. — A.C. Cobble

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver ... a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500. — Charlaine Harris

I hated that I wasn't in control. I hadn't been in control my entire life, and this was just another instance in which men believed they knew
better. — Pepper Winters

What's PSA?" "Prostate test." "Prostate?" Cooper asked, looking a little miffed. "I hope he bought you dinner first. — N.R. Walker

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August. — Katherine Paterson

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. — Jim Rohn

These include the beliefs that the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency; that technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgment; that in fact human judgment cannot be trusted, because it is plagued by laxity, ambiguity, and unnecessary complexity; that subjectivity is an obstacle to clear thinking; that what cannot be measured either does not exist or is of no value; and that the affairs of citizens are best guided and conducted by experts. — Neil Postman

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. — Ovid