Watkins Quotes & Sayings

The sooner that Layla understands that we are nothing but the sum of that which we endure, the better. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something. — Michaela Watkins

back, and then sit — Steve Watkins

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains ... otherwise they wouldn't race. — Sid Watkins

the reason we are so focused on time management as opposed to energy management is because it's easier. — Alan Watkins

Monday night, I miscarried. Just as the doctor explained, I took the pill that afternoon and by sometime in the wee hours of the morning, I miscarried. Vic was there with me for support. — Jessica N. Watkins

I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists. — Tionne Watkins

I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that. — Tionne Watkins

Behind his eyes was emotional pain because I had hurt him. I was in pain because he had crossed me. "Boss, — Jessica N. Watkins

To be successful, you need to mobilize the energy of many others in your organization. If you do the right things, then your vision, your expertise, and your drive can propel you forward and serve as seed crystals. — Michael D. Watkins

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. — James D. Watkins

Don't diss the caterpillar and then sweat it when it starts to turn into a beautiful butterfly. — Jessica N. Watkins

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. — Michaela Watkins

Matthew Watkins: I need an afternoon pick-me-up. I accept cash and/or prizes that can be exchanged for cash. Also, hobbits. — Jessica Park

We can all name people we take for granted, because everybody's swamped. Overwhelmed. Harried. We mean to make memories with people who matter, but often, we put it off for someday. And someday morphs into never, as Life's unpredictability claims the people we love. — Andra Watkins

I wouldn't exactly call what I was doing prostitution. As a matter of fact, I didn't put any labels on how I made money. It was simply called doin' what I had to do. My — Jessica N. Watkins

While Taij and I were together, I made sure to keep up my appearance since his lack of an erection always made me feel like something was wrong with me. — Jessica N. Watkins

I know women who are not in the lifestyle wouldn't understand this, but watching Melanie arouse my man made my pussy wet. — Jessica N. Watkins

I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time. — Tionne Watkins

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all. — Michaela Watkins

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us. — Mike Watkins

Nature had refused to offer herself to them. The water, the green, the mammalian, the tropical, the semitropical, the leafy, the verdant, the motherloving citrus, all of it was denied them and had been denied them so long that with each day, each project, it became more and more impossible to conceive of a time wen it had not been denied them. The prospect of Mother Nature opening her legs and inviting Los Angeles back into her ripeness was, like the disks of water shimmering in the last foothill reservoirs patrolled by the National Guard, evaporating daily. — Claire Vaye Watkins

This is an era of violent peace. — James D. Watkins

Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives. — Claire Vaye Watkins

There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time. — Sara Watkins

I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with. — Michaela Watkins

Everything I can say about what it means to lose, what it means to do without, the inadequate weight of the past, you already know. — Claire Vaye Watkins

All the same and each one better than the next — Anthony Watkins

I want to live. I didn't have time to die. — Tionne Watkins

Chance's public defender hadn't been any help whatsoever. He rarely answered my calls. When we finally talked, he wasn't any help. — Jessica N. Watkins

It's not the suffering that wears you down and defeats you, it's the meaningless suffering. There's no limit to what human beings will put up with if they think it all has a purpose; there's no limit to what they'll sacrifice — William John Watkins

From time to time, Ebony and I also ran credit card scams. — Jessica N. Watkins

For the first time in a long time, I was nervous around a man. Vince and I have been rather close for the past year, but it's been an emotional connection. This — Jessica N. Watkins

When I got 'Trophy Wife', the first fear is, 'This could go away;' the second is, 'It's here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.' — Michaela Watkins

Later, when I walked Littleberry out to his Vespa, he asked if he could kiss me.
'Well, yeah,' I said, my heart thumping. Finally.
'I'm a really good kisser,' he added, as if I still needed him to talk me into it. — Steve Watkins

We were both damaged goods that had a hand in damaging each other further. — Jessica N. Watkins

It is painfully obvious that I have fallen out of love with my husband. It is also painfully obvious that Travis is too egotistical to help me fall back in love with him. — Jessica N. Watkins

Amiel was always sure to spend the holidays with me. I assume it's to prevent me from feeling like the typical chick on the side that never gets the holidays. — Jessica N. Watkins

You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez. — Michaela Watkins

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future. — Henry Watkins Allen

Though my initial intent was to cater to him, he took over our sexual experiences by catering to and spoiling me. — Jessica N. Watkins

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality. — Kevin Watkins

Ye who have laid your love to rest,
And wept above their lifeless clay,
Know not the anguish of that breast,
Whose lov'd are rudely torn away.

Ye may not know how desolate,
Are bosoms rudely forced to part,
And how a dull and heavy weight,
Will press the life-drops from the heart. — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million? — Jay Leno

Because Lynn and I worked so close together, our friendship grew into a support system for one another. At the time, I was seeing a psychologist. — Jessica N. Watkins

We had experienced the best and the worst of love, sex, and lies. Every heartbreak, every lie, every cheat, every test, — Jessica N. Watkins

I know it's not an excuse, but that was my only reason for fucking Omari in the first place. It was nothing personal against Aeysha. — Jessica N. Watkins

She was addicted to the pain. Addicted to the drama. Addicted to the cat and mouse game. — Jessica N. Watkins

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible. — Michaela Watkins

She saw for the first time the way we fill our homes with macabre altars to the live things we've murdered the floral print of the twin mattress in her childhood bedroom, stripped of its sheets when she soiled them; ferns on throw pillows coated in formaldehyde; poppies on petrochemical dinner plates; boxes and bags of bulk pulpstuffs emblazoned with plant imagery the way milk cartons are emblazoned with children. A rock on a window ledge, cut flowers stabbed in vases, a wreath of sprigs nailed to the front door
every house a mausoleum, every house a wax museum. — Claire Vaye Watkins

In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why. — Tasker Watkins

As a writer, I will go down any dark alley, inch my way through the tightest crawl space, and feed on your every fear. I will take your sense of calm and tear it to shreds. - Horror Author Barbara Watkins — Barbara Watkins

He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that. — Claire Vaye Watkins

It was crazy how prior to leaving Chicago, I thought that I would die without Omari. I thought that my life would be meaningless if I wasn't waking up to him every day. But now that I had no choice but to move on, there was no pain in losing him. — Jessica N. Watkins

doubted. Growth happened when I overcame my mind. — Andra Watkins

Jelani hasn't stopped calling and text messaging me since Thursday. Every day there has been more than twenty calls, a dozen voicemails, damn near hundreds of text messages, and only God knows how many times he IM'd me because I haven't logged in out of fear. He's — Jessica N. Watkins

Jules liked that I was a local. I made her feel authentic, which is especially important to Californians. — Claire Vaye Watkins

The dots had begun to connect. It wouldn't take long for the police to connect me to purchasing the phone that Chance had been using. It wouldn't take long for them to retrieve the text messages and hundreds of phone calls between me and "Reginald Barner". I didn't know how they had connected the dots, but they were connected. It was time for me to run before they fully connected to me. For — Jessica N. Watkins

Atlanta. I was forgetting more and more about my life in Chicago, and I prayed that it was forgetting about me. As — Jessica N. Watkins

Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make [wilderness] not a battlefield but a revelation. — T. H. Watkins

The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out. — Claire Vaye Watkins

The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance. — T. H. Watkins

Shon has been his right hand for the last five years. Shon was his best friend and like a brother to him- not just someone who worked for him. — Jessica N. Watkins

Though she promised that she would take care of things, she was ghost, just like I thought. She wasn't answering my text messages, and she was straight sending me to voicemail when I called. I — Jessica N. Watkins

I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages. — Sam Watkins

Our relationship was different, therefore successful, because James and I understood each other's sexuality. He loves women; loves them. He was very honest with me about his insatiable appetite for the opposite sex. — Jessica N. Watkins

'SNL' was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't have any regrets. — Michaela Watkins

Bed biting my nails and damn near in tears. Part of me wanted to just tell him what was about to happen so that he could prepare himself. Yet, I couldn't figure out who I owed my loyalty to. Benz, — Jessica N. Watkins

Everyone there pretended to be so bohemian and radical but really they were all worried about offending everyone else and she was fucking sick of it. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now. — Claire Vaye Watkins

While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they were going to shoot to death with musketry, by order of a court-martial, for desertion. He was being hauled to the place of execution in a wagon, sitting on an old gun box, which was to be his coffin. When they got to the grave, which had been dug the day before, the water had risen in it, and a soldier was baling it out. Rowland spoke up and said, 'Please hand me a drink of that water, as I want to drink out of my own grave so the boys will talk about it when I am dead, and remember Rowland. — Sam R. Watkins

The more Vince and I got back to how we used to be, the more I got high. I — Jessica N. Watkins

There was always some savior out in the wilderness, some senator, some patent, some institute, some cell. — Claire Vaye Watkins

A promise unkept will take a man's mind. — Claire Vaye Watkins

What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. That word again: purpose. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I don't know, maybe it's easier to be lost than found. At least there's energy in lostness. Something to be done. — Claire Vaye Watkins

She was a single mother of four kids, with little help from Twon, who turned into a complete psychopath once they divorced. — Jessica N. Watkins

Luz's father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I love you," he said, and though she knew it was true she kept her eyes closed and said, "Don't say that." She did not want to allow that love could be so fearful and meager and misshapen. He left, and she did not try to stop him. She was through trying to stop him. She had been trying to stop him since the day they met. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Now, I've made mistakes. I've lost people. But you've thrown them away. There is an important difference. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Fyte gloated on the phone with me last week about arresting Lucky. I knew his punk had snatched Lucky up, instead of Blood since Blood was basically untouchable to the police for some reason. — Jessica N. Watkins

He would, he realized, find them or spend the rest of his life looking, and this might not take so long. So be it. All he had ever needed, in that desert or this, was some say in how it went, some reassurance that he would go doing something worthwhile. A sappy idea, but not therefore false. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I was feeding my need to be submissive to a great man since it has been so long since I had the privilege. That's what I missed most about Bradley; the joy I felt catering to someone who took good care of me emotionally, physically, and sexually. He deserved for me to cook, clean, and serve him. I — Jessica N. Watkins

I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person. — Michaela Watkins

They say that everything happens for a reason. Maybe one day, I will know what that reason is. Until then, I would live everyday correcting my wrongs. — Jessica N. Watkins

We want to remember the lessons of our past because they have a lot to teach us. That way, we can avoid the mistakes and fools of our past. Forgiving is not the same as condoning or approving. — Jessica N. Watkins

I looked at Tarbox and saw he was a dangerous and ugly man. It was as if he had been born in someone's nightmare, then kicked his way out of their head. — Paul Watkins

A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support. — Mary Watkins

My wife had only been dead for a few months, and already random ass women were trying to fill her shoes. — Jessica N. Watkins

Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life. — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

It's not the hurt pride. It's the lack of love. It's gut wrenching. I mean, a family is an attempt to create a private world of trust in a storm and then it just all gets blown to shit and all the bits get scattered and lost. Everything falls apart. — Daniel Watkins

I'm very much for helping create women who are going to be successful women. I don't like women who imitate men, who want to emasculate men. I think women should be feminine. That does not mean a 'air-brain' or someone who is not strong. I think real strength is strength of character, not the ability to push everyone around. — June Dally-Watkins

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate. — Kevin Watkins

From the moment of birth, folks suddenly wanted what others said they could not have. Kids craved the most sugary sweets how alcoholics thirsted for one more drink with the most impactful punch. — Jermaine Watkins

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that. — Tionne Watkins

Anyone can 'outwit' a person who trusts them --- it doesn't take any brains to do that --- all one needs is no sense of honor. — Shirley Watkins

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins. — Jackie Stewart

Tricey eventually forgave me for falling in love with Taij, but Lyric never did. Besides, — Jessica N. Watkins

Because of escorting, I often had sex twice in one day; with a client and with the man that I was seeing intimately. It — Jessica N. Watkins

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves. — Bruce Catton