Jeyner Quotes & Sayings

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real. — Daphne Du Maurier

I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph [ the way] you believe it.. — Mary Ellen Mark

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent. — Vinoba Bhave

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think. — Sue Grafton

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

you either are or aren't — Michael Thomas Ford

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle. — Doris Lessing

Speaking of wishes, who wished for a man who would love her for her skill? — Meagan Spooner

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.
'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.
'What?'
'The drop'.
A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'. — Joe Abercrombie

But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean. — Ama Ata Aidoo

Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law. — Adyashanti