Julias Quotes & Sayings

Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure. — Richard Posner

T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. — Sue Monk Kidd

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do. — Charlie Munger

The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull. — Hampton Sides

This is habitual. Mother flutters her wings, and every institution within sight tumbles flat. — Dorothy Dunnett

If you want to serve the age, betray it. — Brendan Kennelly

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. — Orson Scott Card

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to. — Billy Beane

President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias. — Ben Shapiro

We come from a country that has made a fetish if not a virtue out of proving it can live without art: high, low, old, new, fat, lean, and particularly the rarely visible nocturnal art of poetry.
We must do something with our time on this small aleatory sphere for motives other than money. Power is not an acceptable surrogate. — C.D. Wright

In my neighborhood ... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away. — Curtis Jackson

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. — Harold W. Dodds

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured. — Galileo Galilei

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. — Desiderius Erasmus

If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it's sick. When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do in order to heal yourself. Your body may tell you to change certain habits, eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an answer available to you. The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response. — Shakti Gawain

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks. — Dougray Scott

He adores you, you know. You're very lucky to have a brother like that."
I fall into step with her. "Yeah, right, I'm the luckiest guy in the universe." I heave a sigh. "But in my next life I'd prefer a puppy, okay? — Bart Yates