Jennscents Quotes & Sayings

Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there's such a cascade of images and ideas that I'm grapping with mentally, I couldn't also be in a chaotic setting. — Diane Ackerman

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs. — Judge Reinhold

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye

It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was. — Noorilhuda

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height. — Edward Abbey

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan

The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any other time could he remember it, nor ever understand again why one should quarrel with an animal for having more legs or eyes than oneself. — C.S. Lewis

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. — Haruki Murakami

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. — Robert Anton Wilson

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. — Elias Hasket Derby

Oh, come off it. That surly cunt is squirming like a snake."
"Could there be some sort of Freudian symbolism in your choice of similes?"
"What?"
"Forget it ... — Stieg Larsson

Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be. — Iyanla Vanzant