Jrtalks Quotes & Sayings

Distance is nothing when you are something. — Zarry Hendrik

Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when. — Amy Poehler

I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three. — Robert A. Heinlein

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. — Sargent Shriver

There is no Soul, where there is give and take. Wherever there is give and take, it is a stock market. — Dada Bhagwan

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. — Robert Pinsky

Lucy could feel herself slipping, sliding into need, falling into a hazy place of love and desire where right was not quite identifiable from wrong. — Julia Quinn

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. — Orson Scott Card

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons. — Alex Lifeson

The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine. — Adam Duritz

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist? — Richard Louv

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. — Jimmy Fallon

It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority. — Edward Kennedy