Mr Jinks Quotes & Sayings

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm. — Jennifer Donnelly

I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff. — Catherine Jinks

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history. — Catherine Jinks

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write. — Mika.

I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day. — Jim Crace

Below calls ditto. I'll get the almanac and as I have heard devils can — Herman Melville

I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom? — Catherine Jinks

If it hadn't been for Prosper, he might never have learned how to love at all. Because the ability to become attached to people was something that you had to exercise at an early age, if you didn't want to lose it altogether. — Catherine Jinks

I'm a very nervy kind of person, who finds it almost impossible to relax. — Catherine Jinks

Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love. — Dana Fox

Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails. — Deborah Jackson

Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes. — Catherine Jinks

Miss Witherfield retired, deeply impressed with the magistrate's learning and research; Mr. Nupkins retired to lunch; Mr. Jinks retired within himself - that being the only retirement he had, except the sofa-bedstead in the small parlour which was occupied by his landlady's family in the daytime - and Mr. Grummer retired, to wipe out, by his mode of discharging his present commission, the insult which had been fastened upon himself, and the other representative of his Majesty - the beadle - in the course of the morning. — Charles Dickens

Her satellite made one full orbit around Planet Earth every sixteen hours. It was a prison that came with an endlessly breathtaking view - vast blue oceans and swirling clouds and sunrises that set half the world on fire. — Marissa Meyer

When someone's rattling on about blocked toilets, collapsing marquees, and penis-shaped birthday cakes, it's hard to convince yourself that you're in a life-or-death situation. — Catherine Jinks

One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision. — Theo Paphitis

Why look to far ahead, when there was nothing to see but dark clouds? — Catherine Jinks

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up! — Catherine Jinks

I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head. — Catherine Jinks

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words. — Catherine Jinks

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements. — Catherine Jinks

What ever you do-Don't get caught. — Catherine Jinks

I didn't know how much I could love until you were gone. Until your laughter no longer filled my home, your wicked high jinks no longer made me crazy. Until I stood in that damned club and knew, without you by side, my life was as empty as my bed was without you in it. I didn't know what love was, until I saw my refusal to admit it drown all the sweet innocence in your eyes. I love you. — Lora Leigh

I have nothing bad to say about Hulk Hogan. In fact, compared to what I have seen in the press and all the high jinks of his life, I didn't see any of that coming, man. He was just a businessman who worked out. — Kurt Fuller

Horace, however, had arrayed himself in a Gothic assortment of crushed velvet, black satin, and patent leather that shouldn't have been allowed in my view. He might as well have I AM A VAMPIRE embroidered across the front of his watered-silk waistcoat. An outfit like that is going to get him staked one of these days; it's exactly what Boris Karloff would have worn, if he had joined the cast of Rocky Horror Motion Picture Show. — Catherine Jinks

Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing. — Adam West

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. — Catherine Jinks

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ. — John Calvin

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. — Ernest Hemingway,

The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show. — Michael Kors

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out. — Catherine Jinks

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more. — Catherine Jinks

The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.' — Catherine Jinks

I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought. — Sandi Toksvig

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. — Catherine Jinks