Jessimae Peluso Quotes & Sayings

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you. — Maxine Cheshire

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them. — Shinya Yamanaka

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel. — Lesslie Newbigin

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. — Alfred Korzybski

Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected because it's a very fragile thing and without it, we're so defenseless, we're paralyzed. — The Martian Child David Gerrold

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition. — Jean Cocteau

You cannot bury someone with the Shereketa spirit for long. Even if they are thrown into problems, they will rise back up. — Archibald Marwizi

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel. — Alexander McCall Smith

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. — Tom Wolfe

I have a lot of boo-boos, cowboy."
"Maybe I should kiss them." He leaned forward, brushed his lips against her forehead, just above the stitches over her eyebrow.
She held up her arm where there was an abrasion. "Hurts here too."
He kissed the spot.
"And here." She pointed to her mouth.
He kissed her with a pressure as light as the brush of a butterfly's wing.
She thought of a hundred places on her body she wanted him to kiss. "I hurt all over. — Lurlene McDaniel

There is a nice Victorian reticence in denying the probability of a miserable prelude to mortality, and it is what everyone wants to hear. But if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, our our doctos, have done wrong. — Sherwin B. Nuland

He wanted to be loved and cherished, yes. But he also wanted to be fucked. — Heidi Cullinan

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted. — Al Pacino

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word. — Leonard Feather