Jocqui Smollett Quotes & Sayings

April 11, 2004
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the rules of thought, feeling, and behavior in these circumstances? It seems like there should be a rule book somewhere that lays out everything exactly the way one should respond to a loss like this. I'd surely like to know if I'm doing it right. Am I whining enough or too much? Am I unseemly in my occasional moments of lightheartedness? At what date and I supposed to turn off the emotion and jump back on the treadmill of normalcy? Is there a specific number of days or decades that must pass before I can do something I enjoy without feeling I've betrayed my dearest love? And when, oh when, am I ever really going to believe this has happened? Next time you're in a bookstore, as if there's a rule book.
11:54 p.m.
Jim — Jim Beaver

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible. — Fyodor Sologub

Perfect." He hugged me. "Spoiler alert!" "What is it?" I asked warily. "Everything's going to be fine, Libby," he said, hugging me again. "I just know it. — Camille Pagan

Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude. — Marcel Proust

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? — William Shakespeare

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back. — Anthony LaPaglia

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. — Jodie Foster

Barack Obama is a symptom rather than the problem. He didn't declare himself president; America chose him. — Mark Steyn

Some men are crazy," I said, moving toward the door.
"What do wou mean?"
"I mean, some men are in love with their wives. — Charles Bukowski

As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted, of a long-dead German economist were bringing biblical calamity to China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. — Martin Amis

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it. — Michael Shanks

And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long forgotten. When, perhaps sooner, perhaps later, our civilization finally lies dying in the gutter, some of us will still be looking, as the ancient Mesopotamians taught us to do, at the stars. — Paul Kriwaczek

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well. — Oliver Goldsmith