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I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitatio...
JESS WALTER I don't know what I expected – no
maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface-
but this drug d...
JESS WALTER I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the ...
JESS WALTER I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go h...
JESS WALTER I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a do...
JESS WALTER I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees ...
JESS WALTER I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go t...
JESS WALTER The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things wer...
JESS WALTER In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ...
JESS WALTER My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the mor...
JESS WALTER I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don&#...
JESS WALTER „Listen,” Richard says, „unless you're about to inherit some money, what we're talking about h...
JESS WALTER I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.
JESS WALTER What business does memory have with time?
JESS WALTER My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've...
JESS WALTER I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ...
JESS WALTER It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that des...
JESS WALTER What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
JESS WALTER He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination b...
JESS WALTER All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, ...
JESS WALTER Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
JESS WALTER Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.
JESS Heavenly possibilities are but words on a page, when the truth lies within the heart. Awaken.
JESS Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sel...
JESS ROTHENBERG We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis....
JESS MOODY I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell fo...
JESS ROTHENBERG

She’s having a party, you
know. This coming week.”
He took a sip of wine. “I know. I...
JESS MICHAELS

Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.
JESS MCGOVERN

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
JESS GLYNNE

My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when ...
JESS GLYNNE

My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.
JESS GLYNNE

I look after my skin quite a lot because in this job, it can get stressful. Pimples come out! I clea...
JESS GLYNNE There’s always that one guy who gets a hold on you. Not like your best friend’s brother who gets...
JESS ROTHENBERG In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG There's always that one guy who gets a hold on you.
JESS ROTHENBERG Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
JESS LAIR Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
JESS LAIR Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less comp...
JESS ROW

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.
JESS GLYNNE

I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my manag...
JESS GLYNNE

Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the...
JESS GLYNNE In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW It's a little too early to say anything. It's not necessarily a trend. Things fluctuate from year to...
JESS BROWN Lander did a great job. He used all of his strokes and was so mentally prepared he jumped out really...
JESS MUNRO In the first round when Dempsey hit me with a left hook, I tried hard to continue, but I was rapidly...
JESS WILLARD You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently�...
JESS ROTHENBERG It's terrible for a town like Newtown to have a pound that's so antiquated.
VIRGINIA JESS Alpha Phi and Kappa Delta were two of the best teams, so our strategy was to stay with them. In addi...
JESS SAPP We're confident that we'll continue to grow globally and at a multiple to the market.
JESS BLACKBURN

At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many ti...
JESS GLYNNE If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever....
JESS LAIR I’d be foolish if I didn’t return her interest.” He puffed out his chest. “And no one has ev...
JESS SCHIRA One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty muc...
JESS ROTHENBERG You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.
JESS ROTHENBERG When walking the road of life, eat well, love everyone, and don't suck up the devil's trash
JESS DEATON We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there&#...
JESS ROW I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy ...
JESS WEIXLER They made it deep into the second day at last weekend's tournament. And they picked up right where t...
JESS MUNRO In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG

'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're su...
JESS GLYNNE

I like everything I wear to be in sync.
JESS GLYNNE For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedul...
JESS ROTHENBERG

I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very soc...
JESS GLYNNE Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.
JESS ROTHENBERG Not that I was obsessive or anything.
Au contraire, mon frere.
For the record, I would lik...
JESS ROTHENBERG Because love is worth it after all.
JESS ROTHENBERG

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their sp...
JESS C. SCOTT

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
JESS C. SCOTT

Please, touch me, I pray.
JESS C. SCOTT

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
JESS C. SCOTT

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved on...
JESS C. SCOTT

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
JESS C. SCOTT

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement
JESS C. SCOTT

The human body is the best work of art.
JESS C. SCOTT

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.

Good things come to ...
JESS C. SCOTT

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to wal...
JESS C. SCOTT

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
JESS C. SCOTT

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
JESS C. SCOTT

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?
JESS C. SCOTT

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
JESS C. SCOTT

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So th...
JESS C. SCOTT

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though...
JESS C. SCOTT We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
DR. JESS LAIR When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And...
DR. JESS LAIR

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
JESS C. SCOTT

Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state...
JESS C. SCOTT

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lil...
JESS C. SCOTT

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
JESS C. SCOTT

That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find somethin...
JESS C. SCOTT

Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she consider...
JESS C. SCOTT

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, whi...
JESS C. SCOTT

Tie me up, please..." Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the ...
JESS C. SCOTT

He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-endin...
JESS C. SCOTT

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl an...
JESS C. SCOTT

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, ...
JESS C. SCOTT

Quando qualcuno ti ama, il modo in cui pronuncia il tuo nome è differente. Sai che il tuo nome è a...
JESS C. SCOTT

When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down an...
JESS C. SCOTT He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in...
JESS DEL BOSQUE

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could und...
JESS C. SCOTT

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend...
JESS C. SCOTT

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a ...
JESS C. SCOTT

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
JESS C. SCOTT

Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.
JESS C. SCOTT

Alice is fictional. This isn't.
JESS C. SCOTT

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
JESS C. SCOTT

Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his cont...
JESS C. SCOTT

[Ever been kissed?]
Of course--Describe it
--Why?--I want to know if you've
JESS C. SCOTT If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
JESS C. SCOTT She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled...
JESS C. SCOTT The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
JESS C. SCOTT [Poem: Slates of Grey]

Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk...
JESS C. SCOTT You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.
JESS C. SCOTT Paeng leans back and rests his hand flat on the table. “Vince.”

Blushing, he snaps at...
JESS MOLLY BROWN The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the...
JESS C. SCOTT Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.
JESS C. SCOTT Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone el...
JESS C. SCOTT She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.
JESS C. SCOTT You can never have too much money.
JESS C. SCOTT "A flexible minded person always have a flexible output".
JESS MABERT G. TAMIOK Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#...
WALTER O'BRIEN Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure...
WALTER BECKER There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet hav...
WALTER BECKER All our wives are experimental psychologists.
WALTER BECKER If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I...
WALTER BECKER I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
WALTER BAGEHOT Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only...
WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause...
WALTER ANNENBERG I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
WALTER ANNENBERG I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
WALTER ANNENBERG Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu...
WALTER ANNENBERG God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
WALTER ANNENBERG You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
WALTER ANNENBERG What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
WALTER ANNENBERG I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
WALTER ANNENBERG Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
WALTER ANNENBERG Accomplish something every day of your life.
WALTER ANNENBERG People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
WALTER ANNENBERG The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
WALTER ANNENBERG In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
WALTER ANNENBERG Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
WALTER ANNENBERG My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
WALTER ANNENBERG Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually en...
WALTER ANNENBERG Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable late...
WALTER ANNENBERG Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
WALTER ANNENBERG I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f...
WALTER ANDERSON Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
WALTER ANDERSON We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, ne...
WALTER ANDERSON I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
WALTER ALSTON I put myself through college playing pool.
WALTER ALSTON I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
WALTER ALSTON The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi...
WALTER ALSTON I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
WALTER ALSTON I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho...
WALTER ALSTON I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ...
ULRICH WALTER Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I...
ULRICH WALTER Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
WALTER WRISTON She's been on more laps than a napkin.
WALTER WINCHELL Nothing recedes like success.
WALTER WINCHELL Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
WALTER WINCHELL Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
WALTER WINCHELL The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
WALTER WINCHELL The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
WALTER WINCHELL I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
WALTER WINCHELL

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