Jirell Quotes & Sayings

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it. — Todd Rokita

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way. — Alexandra Daddario

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person. — Curtis Sittenfeld

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is. — Steve Zahn

Little things that run the world — Edward'O

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection. — Michel De Montaigne

By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.
So, of course, it came out to meet him. — James S.A. Corey

And so, he knows. He wants, he needs, to do the immoral, irresponsible thing. He wants to let this boy court his own destruction. He wants to commit that cruelty. Or (kinder, gentler version) he doesn't want to reconfirm his allegiance to the realm of the sensible, all the good people who take responsibility, who go to the right and necessary parties, who sell art made of two-by-fours and carpet remnants. He wants, for at least a little while, to live in that other, darker world - Blake's London, Courbet's Paris; raucous, unsanitary places where good behavior was the province of decent, ordinary people who produced no works of genius. — Michael Cunningham

What exactly is the free world, anyway? I guess it would depend on what you consider the non-free world. And I can't find a clear definition of that, can you? Where is that? Russia? China? For chrissakes, Russia has a better Mafia than we do now, and China is pirating Lion King DVDs and selling dildos on the Internet. They sound pretty free to me. Here are some more jingoistic variations you need to be on the lookout for; "The greatest nation on Earth; the greatest nation in the history of the world"; and "the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth." That last one is usually thrown in just before we bomb a bunch of brown people. Which is every couple of years. — George Carlin

He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens. — Shadowlands

Bickering. It's so much uglier than a heated, dish-smashing fight, isn't it? — Jessica Knoll

You must realize that you have a vision on this earth — Sunday Adelaja

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own. — Orson Welles

Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let's make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon