Jorrie Mackenzie Quotes & Sayings

In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and routine that ought to have dulled and dampened it; and above all in the abiding capacity for empathy, for moral imagination, that is the fruit of an observant curiosity like Bloom's, I found, as if codified, a personal definition of heroism.
Ulysses struck me, most of all, as a book of life; every sentence, even those that laid bare the doubt, despair, shame, or vanity of its characters, seemed to have been calibrated to assert, in keeping with the project of the work as a whole, the singularity and worth of even the most humdrum and throwaway of human days. Michael Chabon — Michael Chabon

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis — Philip Zaleski

The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. — Harland Williams

There are times when one's life appears to be a stage. People come, people go. They come in order to go, and go with no intent of return. When they return, they return as one's past. A past that would make you feel that the present is false. — Vijay Tendulkar

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long. — Lewis Black

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. — Anne Lamott

No point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish. — Terrance Dicks

Don't say it ...
Do it! — Jose N. Harris

More than anything else, he watches to see if you'll be too emotionally dependent on him. — Sherry Argov

It's about his family. It will always be about his family. And himself. Deep in your heart you know that and you're trying to convince yourself that you can save him. And you can't. There's no saving Dylan Daniels. — Molly O'Keefe

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. — Jean De La Bruyere

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind. — Peter Atkins