Jewrican Quotes & Sayings

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair ... which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views. — Peter Singer

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn. — Dimebag Darrell

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating. — Terry McMillan

Nature operates in the shortest way possible. — Aristotle.

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out. — Jean Chapman

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself. — Pope Francis

He's my brother. He's the one we're going to find.' 'Right.' 'We had a cousin who was disabled. He was always getting bullied and Paul was always sticking up for him.' 'He sounds like a nice guy, your brother,' said Marco kindly. 'He sounds like a dick,' Felix murmured under his breath. Marco tried not to laugh. Luckily Olivia hadn't heard him. 'He's brilliant,' said Olivia. 'When my mum and dad died he looked after me.' 'We'll find him,' said Marco. 'The dick,' Felix added, slightly too loudly, and Marco snorted. — Charlie Higson

Boxing is always serious. — Juan Manuel Marquez

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. — Megan Whalen Turner

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican. — Rachel Ticotin

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom. — Rajneesh

Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me. — Sylvia Day

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance. — Terry Zwigoff

I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology. — Patti Stanger