Jimmy Rabbitte Character Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger. — Dolly Parton

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison. — Henry David Thoreau

It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before. — Tom Stoppard

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down. — Norman Vincent Peale

sarchasm n. The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. — Steven Pinker

I've been looking for a long, long time,
for this thing called love,
I've ridden comets across the sky,
and I've looked below and above.
Then one day I looked inside myself,
and this is what I found,
A golden sun residing there,
beaming forth God's light and sound. — Rumi

The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146] — Siri Hustvedt

Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. — Joan Z. Borysenko

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us. — Kenneth L. Pike

Despite Ace being apologetic, the devil lives inside of him and that would never go away. — Mz. Lady P