J. F. Stone Quotes

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

One does not consider style, because style is.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

God did not create us to abandon us.

Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God!

I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me.

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

I have been a friend of Paul Manafort's for, I don't know, almost 50 years. We go back to Young Republicans together. He has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and I choose to take him at his word.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

When the sun dies we will become one.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

I challenge myself to take at least one fashion risk a day, otherwise I get stuck.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now

What you see is what you get. What you hear is who I am.

Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable.