Rakoff Jefferson Quotes & Sayings

I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube. — Liz Phair

Ere the dolphin dies
Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath
Are tropic winds before the voice of death. — Fitz-Greene Halleck

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes. — Joel Stein

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. — Leslie Jamison

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible. — Shannon Miller

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world. — Phillip C. McGraw

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi

Vanaboding pares down and eliminates hundreds of expenses and many tasks and pursuits that steal your time; your life . Simplification is essential. The fact is you only need these five things in order to have a great life: excellent food, great sleep, good personal hygiene, healthy sex, and protection from the elements. I call these the Essentials of a Great Life. The pursuit of anything else will cost you dearly and will rarely adequately reward you. — Jason Odom

I've just fallen on some bad luck and landed jelly side down. — Barbara Kingsolver

Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can. — John Sexton

I'm really sorry, Jess, but she's going to have to have your room.'

'My room?' exploded Jess. 'There's a perfectly good spare room upstairs!'

'Yes, but you see, darling, Granny can't manage stairs quite so easily anymore. Since Grandpa died and she had that fall, you know- well, her house is too much for her to manage on her own. [...] Granny has to be on the ground floor, love. She can use the groundfloor loo, and we'll convert the old coal shed at the back into a bathroom.'

Jess was too furious to speak. No, wait, she wasn't. 'Where am I supposed to sleep then?' she snapped. 'Out on the pavement? — Sue Limb

Next to the lightest heart, the heaviest is apt to be most playful. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ephram took her hand, "But I'll tell you what. I'm most interested in the woman you have yet to be."O — Cynthia Bond

She was a large, boneless woman who draped herself like an old blanket over the chairs of the apartment, staring for hours with her gray eyes at ghosts, figments, recollections, and dust caught in oblique sunbeams, her arms streaked and pocked like relief maps of vast planets, her massive calves stuffed like forcemeat into lung-colored support hose. She was quixotically vain about her appearance and spent an hour each morning making up her face. — Michael Chabon

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin. — Madonna Ciccone