That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
JANDY NELSON Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.
JANDY NELSON The.
World.
Is.
Not.
A.
Safe.
Place.
JANDY NELSON There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON There were once two sisters
who were not afriad of the dark
because the dark was full of t...
JANDY NELSON The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exis...
JANDY NELSON I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how sibl...
JANDY NELSON People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
JANDY NELSON grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to re...
JANDY NELSON She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting
JANDY NELSON Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.
I have grey eyes to her green,
a...
JANDY NELSON She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabrainge...
JANDY NELSON what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.
JANDY NELSON Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.
JANDY NELSON I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.
JANDY NELSON I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, on...
JANDY NELSON I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my o...
JANDY NELSON The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
JANDY NELSON Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the f...
JANDY NELSON Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
JANDY NELSON When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
JANDY NELSON His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.
JANDY NELSON My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away...
JANDY NELSON This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like...
JANDY NELSON I'm thinking the reason I've been so quiet all those years is only because Brian wasn't around yet f...
JANDY NELSON Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping...
JANDY NELSON There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I’d like to have a word with him....
JANDY NELSON Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
JANDY NELSON It’s time for second chances. It’s time to remake the world.
JANDY NELSON We are all broken. I mean, aren't we now? I am. The whole wide world is.
JANDY NELSON I turn around, remembering again that we got made together, cell for cell. We were keeping wach othe...
JANDY NELSON Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.
JANDY NELSON I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I&...
JANDY NELSON This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b...
JANDY NELSON I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I a...
JANDY NELSON Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and lov...
JANDY NELSON Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.
JANDY NELSON He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive any...
JANDY NELSON I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is w...
JANDY NELSON Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.
JANDY NELSON Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever
JANDY NELSON Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical moveme...
JANDY NELSON That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
JANDY NELSON Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
JANDY NELSON I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one bad...
JANDY NELSON And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
JANDY NELSON The Color Of Extraordinary.
JANDY NELSON Oh, God,’ he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. ‘Let’s le...
JANDY NELSON Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
JANDY NELSON How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour...
JANDY NELSON All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of ...
JANDY NELSON When he plays
all the flowers swap colors
and years and decades and centuries
of rain...
JANDY NELSON ... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who ...
JANDY NELSON I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
JANDY NELSON In every set of twins, there is one angel, one devil.
JANDY NELSON Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
JANDY NELSON Its like I have a window in my chest where sunlight is pouring in.
JANDY NELSON He carries pieces of the galaxy around in a bag
JANDY NELSON I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of bo...
JANDY NELSON What's your major, Lennie? Oh yeah: Dorkology.
JANDY NELSON I can't shove the dark out of my way.
JANDY NELSON It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they ...
JANDY NELSON For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational fa...
JANDY NELSON The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.
JANDY NELSON There were once two sisters who shared the same room,
the same clothes,
the same thoughts...
JANDY NELSON In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.
JANDY NELSON Our eyes meet and hold, and the world starts to fall away, time does, years rolling up like rugs, un...
JANDY NELSON Because who knows? Who knows anything? Who knows who's pulling the strings? Or what is? Or how? Who ...
JANDY NELSON In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.
JANDY NELSON I'd been making desicions for days.
I picked out the dress Bailey would wear forever-
a bl...
JANDY NELSON And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel P...
JANDY NELSON They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.
JANDY NELSON He floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his ...
JANDY NELSON What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
JANDY NELSON Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selve...
JANDY NELSON No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
Not to mention w...
JANDY NELSON And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more...
JANDY NELSON A broken heart is an open heart.
JANDY NELSON He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.
JANDY NELSON We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just...
JANDY NELSON It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can'...
JANDY NELSON If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.
JANDY NELSON We wish with our hands, that’s what we do as artists.
JANDY NELSON Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a dam...
JANDY NELSON Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these ...
JANDY NELSON I can't seem to keep you out like I can everyone else. That I think you could devastate me.
JANDY NELSON Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.
JANDY NELSON I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on t...
JANDY NELSON I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"

"So damn much," he says back, it ...
JANDY NELSON If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
NELSON DEMILLE Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
WILLIE NELSON As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
WILLIE NELSON I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
WILLIE NELSON If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
WILLIE NELSON Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning ...
WILLIE NELSON Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes...
WILLIE NELSON I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
WILLIE NELSON A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m...
WILLIE NELSON I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
WILLIE NELSON I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you...
WILLIE NELSON You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
WILLIE NELSON I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
WILLIE NELSON It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
WILLIE NELSON If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
WILLIE NELSON We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who...
WILLIE NELSON You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to ...
WILLIE NELSON Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met...
WILLIE NELSON I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb an...
WILLIE NELSON Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybod...
WILLIE NELSON England expects that every man will do his duty.
HORATIO NELSON They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...
TED NELSON The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowe...
TED NELSON The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions -...
TED NELSON So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut any...
TED NELSON Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
TED NELSON In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...
TED NELSON I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I...
TED NELSON But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted i...
TED NELSON I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am muc...
TED NELSON The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for th...
TED NELSON So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ide...
TED NELSON I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
TED NELSON So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the stru...
TED NELSON Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
TED NELSON Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independ...
NELSON MANDELA I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure border...
NELSON MANDELA Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizati...
NELSON MANDELA I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
NELSON MANDELA I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
NELSON MANDELA I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will...
NELSON MANDELA The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had un...
NELSON MANDELA I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed the...
NELSON MANDELA I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
NELSON MANDELA At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl...
NELSON MANDELA The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhun...
NELSON MANDELA Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a ...
NELSON MANDELA Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
NELSON MANDELA Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
NELSON MANDELA Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
NELSON MANDELA I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not k...
NELSON MANDELA I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of cou...
NELSON MANDELA Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who...
NELSON MANDELA Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitte...
NELSON MANDELA Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppressi...
NELSON MANDELA The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of ...
NELSON MANDELA There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happi...
NELSON MANDELA We can't afford to be killing one another.
NELSON MANDELA Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we...
NELSON MANDELA Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the ta...
NELSON MANDELA I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including ...
NELSON MANDELA Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freed...
NELSON MANDELA There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so ...
NELSON MANDELA From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer...
NELSON MANDELA When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t...
NELSON MANDELA Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example...
NELSON MANDELA You know, you can only lead them from behind.
NELSON MANDELA Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will re...
NELSON MANDELA There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the...
NELSON MANDELA Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
NELSON MANDELA I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the mom...
NELSON MANDELA I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstan...
NELSON MANDELA In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
NELSON MANDELA No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
NELSON MANDELA We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, ...
NELSON MANDELA If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
NELSON MANDELA Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
NELSON MANDELA I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as part freedom.
NELSON MANDELA Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
NELSON MANDELA Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challen...
NELSON MANDELA It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
NELSON MANDELA Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
NELSON MANDELA Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's ve...
NELSON MANDELA If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United State...
NELSON MANDELA I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
NELSON DEMILLE I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
WILLIE NELSON If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Tw...
NELSON MANDELA There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident...
NELSON MANDELA Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
NELSON MANDELA The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
NELSON BOSWELL I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that...
NELSON ALGREN And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. Bu...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs ...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benef...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news. Im convinced t...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER They just wrestled up to their potential.
AL NELSON It's the best thing we ever did. We are really proud of what we do. We feel we are part of a team wi...
AL NELSON It's as important to know what not to say to them.
AL NELSON It meant a lot to us to have friends with us at a time like that.
AL NELSON It could be an hour or it could be seven hours. Every situation is different.
AL NELSON Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
BYRON NELSON I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON It's pretty much the same as spray paint. I think a lot of the student groups think it's the same as...
ALAN NELSON Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelm...
ALAN NELSON Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON It is a neat deal so people don't drive their car. We will have three drivers on New Year's Eve, and...
ALAN NELSON I felt some balls were dropped. We wanted ... to make people know it was largely their fault.
ALAN NELSON