Johneal White Quotes & Sayings

A gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass. — Sara Gruen

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it. — Kevin Smith

You know, a sane man would be wetting his pants.. Good thing he was crazy as hell.
-Caillen's thoughts. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition. — Brenda Blethyn

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence. — Wole Soyinka

I don't feel burdened, but I do feel a little frustrated. Because I see the problem, and I can see the solution - but there are two strongly different points of view on this - like the Republicans and Democrats. — Donna Karan

Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist. — Jacques Rueff

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens. — Steven Pressfield

It's much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it. — Joe Strummer

People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness. Do things in your own style; live your life according to your own light. And even if the same situation arises, be alert to find a new response. It is only a question of a little alertness, and once you have started enjoying ... and it is really a great joy to respond to old situations always in a new way, because that newness keeps you young, keeps you conscious, keeps you non-mechanical, keeps you alive. — Rajneesh

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops — George Eliot

What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a couple, had vanished and it was no use pretending, hoping, wishing that he would return to his old self, and me to mine. [p. 156] — Diane Ackerman

Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality. — Ashton Applewhite

Is everything all right? Is everything all right? Hmm, hold on a minute, let me see ... my mom is going out with my Algebra teacher, a subject I'm flunking, by the way; my best friend hates me; I'm fourteen years old and I've never been asked out; I don't have any breasts; and oh, I just found out I'm the princess of Genovia. — Meg Cabot