Jesselynn Desmonds Age Quotes & Sayings

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. — E. Stanley Jones

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience. — Gloria Trevi

It holds my essential stuff, including a book - for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit, my friends, into one's pocket[ ... ] — Michael Chabon

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader. — Alberto Manguel

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it! — Steve Winwood

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics. — Thomas Ligotti

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Nutella and shoes seem to run a close second. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally — Scott Westerfeld

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together. — John Dingell

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus. — Nicolas Bouvier

If you guys want us to get better marks, then please don't have debates in parliament about school funding, don't schedule after-school lessons. Just show us the people who've left this town and have made something of their lives, because I can't imagine anything outside of this town. I can't imagine their lives. All I've ever been shown, in my fourteen years of living here, is that good grades equal spit balls. Please show me why I should try. Please show me what's possible. Please show me something else. — Megan Jacobson

I'd just make sure with anything I say I know what I'm talking about. — Patti Smith

As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us. — Moshe Sharett