Jupiter's Travels Quotes & Sayings

Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility
both credit and blame
for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children. — Polly Berrien Berends

Look," I said to Daniel and Jamie, "what's the most terrifying thing you can think of in these tunnels? Rats? Mole people?"
"Evil mastermind hell bent on killing you?" Jamie suggested.
"Wrong. The most terrifying thing in these tunnels is me." I shut the door on both of them and jumped onto the tracks. — Michelle Hodkin

Okay. I'm ready to move onto something else, like practicing with knives or defense against the dark arts. Cool things."
"Did you just quote Harry Potter? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important. — Sally Field

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage. — Penelope Lively

An entire gullible nation believed faithfully in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really the Gasman. — Gunter Grass

My father who was always serious has fallen in love with a dog. What can I do but be happy for him? — Michael Simms

No one gets ahead by striving for mediocrity. — Glenn C. Stewart

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either. — Joanna Lumley

Night landings were a routine part of carrier operations - and perhaps the best of all examples of how a man's accumulated good works did him no good whatsoever at each new step up the great pyramid, of how each new step was an absolute test, and of how each bright new day's absolutes - chosen or damned - were built into the routine. — Tom Wolfe

You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature. — John Muir

They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disembowelled themselves when anything went wrong. — Sylvia Plath

Normal" is all about perception. I mean, isn't "normal" what the majority of people do? — Margaret Lesh