Jezabelle Quotes & Sayings

An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk from two jugs, held high in the air, and I found this entrancing, as if he were a child's magician. One day he said to me - he had some English - "Why are you sad?"
"I'm not sad," I said, and began to cry. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.
"You should not be sad," he said, gazing at me with his melancholy, leathery walrus eyes. "It must be the love. But you are young and pretty, you will have time to be sad later." The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all the kinds. This is why they have bidets. "It is criminal, the love," he said, patting my shoulder. "But none is worse. — Margaret Atwood

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me. — Nikola Tesla

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston S. Churchill

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. — Harold Bloom

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself. — Socrates

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads. — Lloyd Kaufman

Eradicate self-justification.
Then alone can you annihilate your ego. — Sivananda

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. — Lucy Powell

What if he can't save me? What if trying destroys us both? — Jessica Fortunato

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false. — Peter Sloterdijk

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. — Frank Capra

The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it. — Lev Grossman

In order to be a smartarse, you need to be smart? If you're not, it just makes you an arse. — Suzanne Wright

In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive. — David Richo