Jolliene Quotes & Sayings

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are. — Lillian Smith

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again. — Franz Kafka

Thus, Symbolism and Decadence are not a separate new school which arose in France and spread throughout all of Europe: they represent the end and culmination of a certain other school whose links were very extensive and whose roots go back to the beginning of the modern age. Symbolism, easily deduced from Maupassant, can also be deduced from Zola, Flaubert, and Balzac, from Ultra-realism as the antithesis of the previous Ultra-idealism Romanticism and "renascent" Classicism. It is precisely this element of ultra - the result of ultra manifested in life itself, in its mores, ideas, proclivities, and aspirations - that has wormed into literature and remained there ever since, expressing itself, finally, in such a hideous phenomenon as Decadence and Symbolism. The ultra without its referent, exaggeration without the exaggerated object, preciosity of form conjoined with total disappearance of content, and "poetry" devoid of rhyme, meter, and sense - that is what constitutes Decadence. — Vasily Rozanov

Murray said, "Is this Heaven?"
The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place."
Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God? — Isaac Asimov

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary. — Billy Sunday

I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time. — Chuck Palahniuk

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing. — Andy Williams

My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks. — Woody Allen

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was. — Ann Rinaldi

As ordeals and duels gave way to confession as a proof of guilt, judicial torture was actually increasing in France. — Eric Jager

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Barack Obama is an economic patriot. — Ted Strickland

It's true," he smiled, "not just in love, Nell, but hopeless, there's-no-helping-this-guy kind of in love with you. — Elizabeth Reyes

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss. — Jack Nicholson