Jolson Story Quotes & Sayings

Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but things that had meant something to him at one time. He found it, and found the key, and carried it downstairs without opening it. — Jane Smiley

His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the High Arctic regions. — Jules Verne

I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story! — Howard Waldrop

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Brother looked right into Xcor's eyes. "I am Hharm's son. So are you. We are brothers by blood." Xcor's heart began to pound so hard his head hurt. And then he felt his stare narrow of its own volition on Tohr's face. "It's the eyes," the Brother said. "You'll see it in the eyes. And no, I didn't really know him, either. I gather he was not a good male." "Hharm?" Wrath muttered. "No, he wasn't. And that's all I'll say about it." Xcor — J.R. Ward

The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies. — Mathias Malzieu

I'm a voyeuristic American. — Casey Wilson

I never understood why so many spiritual people, upon investing me further, decide to call me angel. I always thought they were being delirious, until I understood their mental limitations. They simply don't believe in aliens and don't understand anything about life on other planets. A beliefs in angels is the best they can do. — Robin Sacredfire

Although we may deplore the film's scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child. — Mark Leyner

Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled you. I remember that exactly. He danced all ways for you, playing your emotions against each other because he had none of his own. — John Le Carre