Jungleland Quotes & Sayings

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. — Charles Spurgeon

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. — John Steinbeck

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. — C.S. Lewis

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be ... — Bruce Springsteen

My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk. — Rolonda Watts

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older. — Gary Hume

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. — Neil Gaiman

The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland. — Bruce Springsteen

When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed. — Paul Davies

if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad — George Gordon Byron

He knew how hot those rumbly-grumbly, gravel-voiced noises made her: hotter than two rats wrestling in a wool sock ... only not as scratchy. Or as smelly. Probably less squeaky, too. But she had to be strong. For the sake of her children. For the sake of her winery. For the sake of her poor, battered heart. For the sake of this story, which would be over far too quickly if she gave in to him now. — Nine Naughty Novelists

I live in my suffering and that makes me happy.
Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me. — Roland Barthes

One week, one strong. One scared, one bold. I was beginning to understand though, that there were no such things as absolutes, not in life, or in people. Like Owen said, it was day by day, if not moment by moment. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough to shoulder the rest. — Sarah Dessen

If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation. — Peter Senge