J. Lynn Quotes

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

I'm an American before any party preference.

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

Never forget which way you face

The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty.

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

You do not have to die to save their lives.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature…our destiny can change.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

I want to be with you.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.