FastSaying

We are here to love hard and true. Here to give ourselves over to the rush and bliss of it all. Here to offer our patchwork hearts over and over again. Here to feel and fall and hurt and bleed. Here to say yes and to choose wholeness and to break anyway and to do it all again.


Jeanette LeBlanc

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Finalement, ce n'est peut-être pas la corruption ni l'avidité qui rend lâche. Peut-être n'est-ce...
ANN BRASHARES Jeżeli chce się żyć każdą nadarzającą się chwilą, trzeba umierać dla każdej innej chwili...
ALDOUS HUXLEY They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po...
LISA KLEYPAS We neither of us perform to strangers.
JANE AUSTEN You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
THERESE MAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the ...
BRANDY HEINEMAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE She always believed love was good and hate was much better. But, indifference would’ve made her a ...
A.A. GUPTE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there...
MICHAEL GURIAN It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the sme...
LARRY WATSON here we were again , always saying good-bye
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA We can’t see the true characters of those who lurk in the shade until they are exposed to the ligh...
NANETTE L. AVERY What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.
AULIQ ICE Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS Try, try, and try again. Never stop trying.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Rocky and Adrian. Ginger and Fred. Dillon and Cadence.
Three sets of two beings. Two people th...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.
BRANDON SANDERSON We don't need love to be eternal, only to be in our lives here and now.
MARTY RUBIN Life is so short, and love is so big. Too big for life! That's why, when you love someone, they'd be...
C. JOYBELL C. Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, un...
JAY WOODMAN Sometimes there are people in this world that you meet. Most of these people remain just that, passi...
EMILY WILLIAMS Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives hu...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Many are arrogant because of the knowledge they possess, but they have no knowledge of how arrogant ...
MADDY MALHOTRA Let them travel freely, from heart to lips.
Feelings they are, don't cut them off at tips.
DRISHTI BABLANI The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It's Lust at First Sight, Not Love at First Sight. Love Requires First to Understand and Appreciate,...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU work. play. passion.
JIM CLARK All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ...
C. NZINGHA SMITH To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I came to a most profound realization. For the first time in my life, I have complete control over w...
KALEB KILTON Yesterday I was, tomorrow I will be, but only Here and Now I Am.
HUMAN ANGELS Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action -...
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ I began to think that there was something awesome about my timing. How was it that, at the exact mom...
MARK EPSTEIN The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.
ABHISHEK RATNA My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace i...
WENDY MASS Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t...
NAZIM AMBALATH Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
AVIJEET DAS Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
CARMELA DUTRA The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their th...
C. JOYBELL C. Needing to express what it’s like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream...
JAY WOODMAN In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Be true to yourself & your feelings.They will never let you down.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself & take responsibility of your action.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Respect your own self being.Don’t compromise by living someone else life.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Being true to self is better than being liar to impress & influence other.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Being true to self is the biggest accomplishment.You are born original, remain original by virtue of...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you are true to yourself, you are completely honest with what you feel, deeply value, and desir...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself. Being true to yourself is most effective way to make you proud of yourself.Make...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Pay attention to your deeper senses and feelings, and by cultivating greater awareness in your life,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Inculcate virtue of being true to self.Being true to self will arm you with high self esteem & keep ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Being true to oneself is the most personally valuable skill one can acquire, for it leads to genuine...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be honest to yourself & follow your dreams.Stay true to yourself because it’s only you who will ma...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

More Jeanette LeBlanc

A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Be gentle. Pay attention. Offer purposeful healing. Seek Equilibrium. Unfreeze, slowly. Stretch your...
JEANETTE LEBLANC To know the hope and the struggle and the stay still and the run away and the come here and the push...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Do not try quiet my voice.
Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl.
I am inhabi...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings c...
JEANETTE LEBLANC You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to clai...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy.

But dar...
JEANETTE LEBLANC It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean s...
JEANETTE LEBLANC You hold the collective story of all women in your body. The muscle memory of generations past. This...
JEANETTE LEBLANC I know the hard ground and the taste of the salt water I’m made of and the way even getting out of...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Out there somewhere there is a love who will never dream of calling you too much. Who speaks, like y...
JEANETTE LEBLANC You are not too much. You have never been too much. You will never be too much. The very idea is pre...
JEANETTE LEBLANC That thing you’re afraid of? That label you shy away from? That word that seems too bold? That aud...
JEANETTE LEBLANC You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn.
JEANETTE LEBLANC You own your body. You own your body. You own your body. Your center and your edges are yours and yo...
JEANETTE LEBLANC There is not enough air in the room but you are breathing.
There is nobody here but you are hel...
JEANETTE LEBLANC There is no shame in feeling broken. In seeking help. In searching for healing. Sometimes it is the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full par...
ROMEO LEBLANC I had hoped to be the most improved, I was really, really trying. I had a really hard time showing e...
CASEY LEBLANC I've just been doing interviews all morning and talking to people back home. (The support) has been ...
CASEY LEBLANC I've just been doing interviews all morning and talking to people back home. (The support) has been ...
CASEY LEBLANC I was really starting to miss home and I'm really glad to be here.
CASEY LEBLANC I had hoped to be the most improved, I was really, really trying. I had a really hard time showing e...
CASEY LEBLANC I've just been doing interviews all morning and talking to people back home. (The support) has been ...
CASEY LEBLANC I'm just happy if we make (the playoffs). If we don't make it to Augusta, it's still a successful se...
MIKE LEBLANC You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
MATT LEBLANC I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?
MATT LEBLANC These people's livelihood depends on this.
ROBERT LEBLANC If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a lit...
ROMEO LEBLANC I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let t...
ROMEO LEBLANC We were watching the news and saw that they needed volunteers. It was a good opportunity for me to g...
DANNY LEBLANC They wanted someone there to talk to, someone who would listen to them. The other refugees - they ha...
DANNY LEBLANC Good friends are like cozy sweaters, they'll always be there to keep you warm when the rest of the w...
JENNIFER LEBLANC To their credit, they?re all their father?s children. There?s never angry words, no recrimination or...
ANDREA LEBLANC To their credit, they're all their father's children. There's never angry words, no recrimination or...
ANDREA LEBLANC I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.
MATT LEBLANC Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.
MATT LEBLANC I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and b...
MATT LEBLANC We've talked about it within the team and we've dubbed it the 'Reverse the Record' season.
MATT LEBLANC Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season,
MATT LEBLANC The more kids we have, the harder we work, the better it's going to be.
MATT LEBLANC The companies we work with have repeatedly told us of their need for a skilled, educated workforce. ...
NEIL LEBLANC I have a lot of people in caucus who gave me their support. I know from discussions with them that t...
NEIL LEBLANC I knew it would be close, but this is a little closer than I thought it would be. I respect the deci...
NEIL LEBLANC Obviously that day we lost some delegates, but we have also got more from other areas. We've moved o...
NEIL LEBLANC [Confusing terminology or not, IBM is one of Cisco's AON partners, and obviously wants the most dipl...
ROBERT LEBLANC The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
MATT LEBLANC The state is in violation of its own law. There are definitely response issues. We are on borrowed t...
DAVID LEBLANC The East fell off. But the North, the South and the West are still there.
GUY LEBLANC You get concerned. The building is one of the signature buildings on the grounds. People photograph ...
GUY LEBLANC Dead in the eye, and he just shook his head. I smiled back.
CASSIE LEBLANC After so many years, it's finally over with. After so many years dealing with it ... gone. In two af...
CASSIE LEBLANC I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills socie...
MATT LEBLANC Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
MATT LEBLANC Every sport in this school is down. Kids don't want to get off their butts and go do something. Kids...
MATT LEBLANC It's like you're caught naked hanging from a tree branch with the wind blowing.
MATT LEBLANC I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferabl...
NEIL LEBLANC I had hoped to be the most improved, I was really, really trying. I had a really hard time showing e...
CASEY LEBLANC I've just been doing interviews all morning and talking to people back home. (The support) has been ...
CASEY LEBLANC That's what New Orleans does. It's part of our DNA, the whole idea of going a little crazy to keep y...
FRED LEBLANC I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future....
ROMEO LEBLANC For anybody out there, good things do happen. Justice does happen. It happens to normal people. Don'...
CASSIE LEBLANC We would hold hands. That was allowed. But (the chaperon) was always behind us.
CHARLES LEBLANC The first year, we planted 20 sacks of Irish potatoes. But the back water came in - we didn't have a...
CHARLES LEBLANC We did it by hand, me and her.
CHARLES LEBLANC I stayed with that for three years. Then, I decided to go into farming.
CHARLES LEBLANC No matter what came up we never did stop. It's hard work that keep us here.
CHARLES LEBLANC We didn't believe it. I'm going to be honest with you. I mean, they don't even know us.
CALVIN LEBLANC We didn't believe it. I'm going to be honest with you. I mean, they don't even know us. To get to wh...
CALVIN LEBLANC It feels like a ghost town to me. And that's a good thing.
STEVE LEBLANC 'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was ...
MATT LEBLANC Families know that new elements are always on view at the museum. From monthly themes, to traveling ...
SUZANNE LEBLANC I like getting out there and having fun.
DAVID LEBLANC There needs to be a commitment to fund an annual class, but before that, there needs to be back-to-b...
DAVID LEBLANC I believe there will be strong and bold recommendations. I think if top managers are involved in ina...
DAVID LEBLANC There are a lot of people wondering what is going to come out of this. No one really knows where it ...
DAVID LEBLANC I don't know how we're going to do it,
DAVID LEBLANC who has information to come forward and [contact] the union.
DAVID LEBLANC We have specific instances we feel need to be addressed, ... but other complaints could widen the sc...
DAVID LEBLANC is appropriate. I'm sure if he finds other things, he's going to report them.
DAVID LEBLANC If I go back and read the trooper [newsletter] going back 10 years, it's the same issues, ... There ...
DAVID LEBLANC When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama th...
MATT LEBLANC Things like this aren't supposed to happen. It (life) goes fast and life isn't fair.
CURT LEBLANC People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them...
MATT LEBLANC FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.
ROBERT LEBLANC I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat peop...
MATT LEBLANC But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the...
MATT LEBLANC You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how ...
MATT LEBLANC If someone is thinking about volunteering for the Red Cross, don't wait until something happens to g...
DANNY LEBLANC The granddaughter couldn't understand why they just couldn't go back home so she could play with her...
DANNY LEBLANC Snap-on really worked with me to get the time off. I really appreciated what they did. It set an exa...
DANNY LEBLANC Our son was involved in a car accident. I was touched by the number of friends, neighbors - and stra...
DANNY LEBLANC The imperfections in life are what make life perfect.
GARY LEBLANC In terms of the building, nothing like this has ever happened before.
GUY LEBLANC Being the songwriter that I am, the easiest way to translate what you're doing for people is to give...
FRED LEBLANC Saying his workers would subsidize enhanced payments for police and fire, I think that is very false...
FRED LEBLANC The Cowboy Mouth thing is so much bigger than just the people in the band. Everybody is just in it t...
FRED LEBLANC Our fans are pretty respectful. They can get a little nutty.
FRED LEBLANC Eventually, one day, we'll have to stop — whether that's next year or in 20 years. I just want to m...
FRED LEBLANC Anybody can come to our shows and have fun.
FRED LEBLANC So many of our friends, families and fans lost their homes, not to mention their livelihoods, so we ...
FRED LEBLANC In the locker room (after the second period) the mood was surprisingly good. We knew we could come b...
DREW LEBLANC We got a lot of bounces. We got on them early and after that they struggled. We realized that we're ...
DREW LEBLANC I think the mood in the locker room before the game was pretty loose. We just wanted to go out there...
DREW LEBLANC This is really a great vehicle. It's like a shoe that does it for all missions.
JAMES LEBLANC We can't use state funds,
JAMES LEBLANC They enjoy this. I don't know what it is, but many inmates love to work with animals,
JAMES LEBLANC How'd you know that would help, Grandma?

Used to have a regular who had attacks like that...
JENNIFER LEBLANC How'd you know that would help, Grandma?

Used to have a regular who had attacks like that...
JENNIFER LEBLANC It's good for conditioning if the dog is out of shape, also recovery from surgery. Now that we've be...
PATRICK LEBLANC There was a lot I didn't know about the Home Rule Charter.
TED LEBLANC I really didn't know him.
TED LEBLANC However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so...
JEANETTE WINTERSON In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.
JEANETTE CORON I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
JEANETTE WINTERSON What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is tru...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What you risk reveals what you value.
JEANETTE WINTERSON To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She was a monster, but she was my monster.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
JEANETTE WINTERSON The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeo...
JEANETTE MACDONALD There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven n...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking...
JEANETTE WINTERSON the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is f...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans ...
JEANETTE DESOR We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I woul...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be wort...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, see...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Been painting ceramics for years, I love it. I am waiting until I finish this project so that I can ...
JEANETTE BROWN It's like raping Alice in Wonderland.
JEANETTE WILLIAMS I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes.
JEANETTE CORON This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
JEANETTE WINTERSON I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.
JEANETTE WINTERSON The free man never thinks of escape.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together....
JEANETTE WINTERSON I don't want the Thatcher years back, but I don't want the Brown-Prescott years either. I am prepare...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was s...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame hea...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is...
JEANETTE WINTERSON To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've work...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald...
JEANETTE MACDONALD But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is f...
JEANETTE WINTERSON To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the g...
JEANETTE WINTERSON As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting,...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the same as being happy--which I think ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.
JEANETTE MACDONALD I must have had rocks in my head.
JEANETTE MACDONALD I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going t...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deep...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love ...
JEANETTE MACDONALD You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love w...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silen...
JEANETTE WINTERSON A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, med...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness whe...
JEANETTE WINTERSON This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped him...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't kno...
JEANETTE WINTERSON They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, n...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measu...
JEANETTE WINTERSON & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R. If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear b...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?
JEANETTE WINTERSON There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
JEANETTE WINTERSON