Jetts Near Quotes & Sayings

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson. — Jerome Charyn

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter

For her, an orgasm felt more like a sneeze, certainly not the earthquake her friends described, and nowhere close to the shrieks of pleasure from the apartment next door. What would that feel like? To be so overwhelmed as to actually scream? — Cherise Sinclair

I'm sick and tired of life with no desire. I don't want a flame, I want a fire. — Matthew West

Great personalities never dies ...
they just stops living ... ! — Shakir Parekh

If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers. — Sahara Sanders

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born. — Ricky Gervais

The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does. — Kim Harrison

Surely
But I am very off from that.
From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow
that was my clean naivete and my faith.
This morning, men deliver wounds and death.
They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.
And I doubt all. You. Or a violet. — Gwendolyn Brooks

I don't need some jerk like Romney, Santorum, Obama, Bush, Clinton or the rest of them telling me that they're my leaders. They couldn't lead me across the street. — Gerald Celente

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself. — Vladimir Guerrero

In fact the English nurses had spent much of their time stuffing mattresses, stirring gruel, and standing at washtubs, but Lib didn't want the nun to mistake her for an ignorant menial. That was what nobody understood: saving lives often came down to getting a latrine pipe unplugged. — Emma Donoghue

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. — John Frusciante