Jess Quotes

Friends are the family that you choose.

Good things come to those who wait.

You can never have too much money.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

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

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who's late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

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

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

You don't raise kids. You raise carrots. You sponsor kids.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

I think we filmed a lot of the recording and it would be nice to do something with it but you know, videos are tricky because we know how to make albums but I'm not very good at video editing .

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

We put out a live thing, it seemed more like a bootleg though but, it would be nice to see like a concert filmed with like good cameras you know, instead of just DV cams.

It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.