Joanns Quotes & Sayings

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence. — Earl Nightingale

Live a humble and gentle life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I had made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man. The kind who never asked you for faith, hope and charity, but offered you facts, proof and profit. — Ayn Rand

Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back. — Eileen Caddy

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss ... — Rob Brezsny

If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches. — Tim Pratt

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg. — Rodney Dangerfield

The sun rises over the Grand Canyon, igniting rocks that have been there for two billion years before we were born and will likely remain two billion years after we're gone. My heart aches with the cruel and unimaginable beauty of it. We are nothing. We are everything. — Sarah Ockler

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out. — Sigourney Weaver

The Internet is in cyberspace, but we" - he paused for effect - "are in meatspace, get it?" Opening — Matthew Mather

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls. — Winona Ryder

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts. — Sharon Kay Penman

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter

As far as how to treat her personally, she'll teach us how if we let her. But it begins with listening and respect. — Scott Rhine