Juodupe Quotes & Sayings

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61] — Siri Hustvedt

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty. — Isabella Bird

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem — Mitch Albom

It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was producing, was great, reminding me that nine times out of 10, they just have gas. — Gwyneth Paltrow

His hands uncupped himself and he stared downward. It was a long while before he spoke, and when he did, his words were slow and considered ... and as ceaseless as his quiet tears.
"I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you young if you'd wanted them and could conceive them. I wish I could have told you that it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wish I had spent the last year waking up every night and telling you I loved you. I wish I had mated you properly the evening you came back to me from the dead. I wish ... " Now his shimmering stare flipped up to hers. "I wish I were half as strong as you are and I wish I deserved you. And ... that's about it. — J.R. Ward

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. — Nate Silver

The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers? — Lia Mills

When we'd moved in, she'd welcomed us. When Marius moved out, I sat on her floor and cried. I suppose I could have called any number of our friends, but that was the problem. They were our friends. Even now, when I see them, which isn't as often as I should, I feel less. Less than I used to be. When I was with him. — Alexis Hall

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon