Shug Jordan Quotes & Sayings

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section)
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. — Nick Hornby

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission. — Helen Sharman

You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1. — John Sculley

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong. — Harry Morgan

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours. — Michelle Moran

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people. — Jodie Foster

This was unintentional."
It became something more without noticing. Without realizing. "Am I a mistake - "
"No, myshka. You're just the unexpected, beautiful thing in my life. — Krista Ritchie

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen. — Fred Upton

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not. — George Herbert

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible. — Thomas Merton

She helped the hunter with the cooking as a husband helps his wife: when he had gone out to hunt and left something to stew, she would take the pot off the fire. But she never knew when to take it off; sometimes it was cooked to pieces, and she never got it right except by accident. But when the accident happened the hunter would laugh and say, "You're as good a cook as my mother!" After all, why should he want her to keep house? If you have a seal that could talk, would you want it to sweep the floor? — Randall Jarrell

I didn't know how much I missed you until I saw you walk away from me. — Claire Contreras

Time is the most valuable resources. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days. — K.J. Bishop

O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me. — Nizar Qabbani