Juliet Quinn Quotes & Sayings

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature."
She looked at him questioningly.
"Where would Romeo and Juliet be?"
"Alive. — Julia Quinn

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered. — Alice Dreger

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. — Willie Rushton

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal. — Dorothy Allison

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Football's always easier when you've got the ball. — Kevin Keegan

The world is always full of promise. — Iris Apfel

Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely. — Alexander Pope

I can't today," I said. "Maybe tomorrow?"
"Can't tomorrow," said Quinn. "I have a family thing. I guess we're logistically star-crossed, Juliet."
Sometimes Quinn calls me Juliet because of how we had to do that scene together, and whenever he does it's good for another bout of brain paralysis. So all I could manage back was "Oh."
"But I'll talk to you later, okay?" he said.
I didn't even try to say anything else but just nodded, wondering as I did what would happen next. The steps had largely emptied by then.
But before I could do much wondering, Quinn's lips were on mine.
And this time it definitely counted. — Jennifer Sturman

He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison.
And with pigeons. — Julia Quinn

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. — Eva Burrows

He turned to me. "Call me later?"
"Yes."
"Promise?"
"I promise," I said.
And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn't Romeo kissing Juliet. It was Quinn kissing Delia. And that was even better. — Jennifer Sturman

Forget Romeo and Juliet. This was much closer to The Taming of the Shrew. — Julia Quinn

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them. — Frederick Lenz

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. — Eric Carle

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly - Tom's Aunt Polly, she is - and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. — Mark Twain

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up — Elbert Hubbard

I'm going to live forever, or die trying ! — Spider Robinson

I was Juliet and Quinn was Romeo, and the lines weren't dead black-and-white words on a page but somehow alive, as natural and real as the argument we'd had about the spider and the fly. The rows of empty seats were gone, and we were in a candlelit ballrooom, wrapped in our own cocoon of words. But the playful banter of our words couldn't mask what we both knew
that after this, nothing would be the same .
And then we got to the kissing part, which we'd only read through together and had never really rehearsed. But it didn't matter, because I was still Juliet and Quinn was still Romeo, his gray-green eyes fixed on mine. And when he bent to kiss me, it was Romeo's lips on Juliet's.
Even so, Juliet was just as stunned as I would've been. When I said the last line, I was speaking for both of us. You kiss by the book. — Jennifer Sturman

If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it? — N.D. Wilson

Prayer for the Day Higher Power, show me how to live a simple life. I don't have to do everything the hard way if I listen better to You. — Anonymous