Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, pe...
JUDITH THURMAN a day of art at the theater.
JUDITH THURMAN This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the en...
JUDITH THURMAN A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
HOWARD THURMAN Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
UMA THURMAN When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you s...
ROB THURMAN Community cannot long feed on itself, it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond: th...
HOWARD THURMAN Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond...
HOWARD THURMAN Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpo...
HOWARD THURMAN Don
HOWARD THURMAN Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the worl...
HOWARD THURMAN I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my ...
UMA THURMAN So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of...
UMA THURMAN I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is pai...
UMA THURMAN Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from ...
HOWARD THURMAN My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
UMA THURMAN It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not fl...
UMA THURMAN I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
UMA THURMAN Follow the grain in your own wood.
HOWARD THURMAN Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world...
HOWARD THURMAN Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you k...
UMA THURMAN There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourse...
HOWARD THURMAN [At least he had his most useful accessory at his beck and call.] The umbrella can be a weapon, ... ...
UMA THURMAN I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image...
UMA THURMAN Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits o...
UMA THURMAN She's as tough as a pine knot.
SUSAN THURMAN Computer systems are better now, and people have a better understanding (of the plans).
BETTY THURMAN One lady told me her son was a real computer whiz, and it took him 2½ hours to pick a plan for her ...
BETTY THURMAN Twilight: A time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from t...
HOWARD THURMAN I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, ...
UMA THURMAN Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
UMA THURMAN I'm so flattered and touched by your comments.
UMA THURMAN worst play ever written.
UMA THURMAN There's an active movement to turn it into a badge of honor,
UMA THURMAN I've been so cool for so long, the split was excruciating.
UMA THURMAN Everyone constantly taunts you that rebound relationships aren't a good idea and that they don't wor...
UMA THURMAN Somebody stop me from beeping. Or do you want to see what I'll do next?
UMA THURMAN Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten yea...
UMA THURMAN I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
UMA THURMAN Fun wouldn't be the right word... It was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary st...
UMA THURMAN I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
UMA THURMAN During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under t...
HOWARD THURMAN Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is ...
UMA THURMAN I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image bey...
UMA THURMAN During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under ...
HOWARD THURMAN You're the little spoon, aren't you?
ROB THURMAN Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.
ROB THURMAN The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.
ROB THURMAN At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
HOWARD THURMAN Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve centre of his consent to a purpose...
HOWARD THURMAN Do I have lipstick on my teeth?
UMA THURMAN I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm n...
UMA THURMAN Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
UMA THURMAN Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits o...
UMA THURMAN The entire flight team is ecstatic about the degree of accuracy that we believe we have achieved. It...
SAM THURMAN Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world...
HOWARD THURMAN He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
HOWARD THURMAN Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinar...
UMA THURMAN One lady told me her son was a real computer whiz, and it took him 2½ hours to pick a plan for her ...
BETTY THURMAN Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If y...
UMA THURMAN We have kept memorabilia from our days in military service. When we realized that Marge was eligible...
BUD THURMAN Back then, my air fare on Eastern Airlines to fly from Florida to where Marge was stationed in New Y...
BUD THURMAN She actually deserves a medal for taking care of me all these years. But these are military citation...
BUD THURMAN The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incid...
HOWARD THURMAN We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
UMA THURMAN You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe ...
ROB THURMAN You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like t...
ROB THURMAN Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube soc...
ROB THURMAN Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.
ROB THURMAN I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacan...
ROB THURMAN Their work is timeless. It transcends the bubblegum pap that passes for music now. A Beatles song is...
ROB THURMAN The relationship between my brain and my mouth tended to be casual at best.
ROB THURMAN She’d eat you alive.” “She would, would she?” Niko said dryly. “Seriously, Nik, she’s da...
ROB THURMAN Me? I was lucky to get a grunt from the local pizza delivery girl. And I had nice eyes too, not to m...
ROB THURMAN And who died and made you boss?” But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my ...
ROB THURMAN Get a grip, change your shorts, and move on to the task at hand.
ROB THURMAN But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead.
ROB THURMAN Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus.” “Let us not make light of th...
ROB THURMAN Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.
ROB THURMAN Anyone with less intestinal fortitude, inhuman or not, would've been curled up on the floor sucking ...
ROB THURMAN But you know what they say. . . . Size isn’t everything. Of course the people that say that are di...
ROB THURMAN Luckily enough, we do have an entire bottle of wheatgrass juice.” “Your sense of humor isn’t a...
ROB THURMAN It’s an unfortunate fact of life,” Niko said with grimly amused resignation. “Where there are ...
ROB THURMAN Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses. “Fear not, night dweller,” ...
ROB THURMAN I didn’t comment on the large knife he slid under the pillow. We all have our security blankets in...
ROB THURMAN The front door had been secure at some point in time, I suppose, but now it usually hung ajar by a f...
ROB THURMAN There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that ever...
ROB THURMAN It is difficult to threaten someone who doesn’t have the necessary attention span to register fear...
ROB THURMAN There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn...
ROB THURMAN Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the wall...
ROB THURMAN And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my ha...
ROB THURMAN Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderel...
ROB THURMAN Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and fai...
ROB THURMAN At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselve...
ROB THURMAN What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal s...
ROB THURMAN Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderel...
ROB THURMAN We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.
ROB THURMAN From his unapologetic attitude to his secret, backroom dealings, Dick Cheney doesn't realize that Am...
KAREN THURMAN Our ports, the most vulnerable in the country because they've not been thought about as national sec...
KAREN THURMAN The Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt. More importantly, lately, they've shown us how i...
KAREN THURMAN I think the Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt, more important lately, they've show us h...
KAREN THURMAN The GOP culture of corruption that has poisoned the atmosphere of Capitol Hill is being cultivated h...
KAREN THURMAN This is a day that I'm sure is very hurtful to the senator. We would welcome the senator to come joi...
KAREN THURMAN It's a contest to see who can write the bawdiest limerick.
KAREN THURMAN It's counter to what the legislature is trying to do, in moving research forward in an area that giv...
KAREN THURMAN All you have to do is start talking about it in terms of what is happening to people in their pocket...
KAREN THURMAN When you have an election like you did Tuesday, people will start recognizing that there is a change...
KAREN THURMAN I guess it's his style of game. Didn't he get two of them? I think it's selfish and childish of him....
ODELL THURMAN The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ter...
THURMAN W. ARNOLD Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. Abo...
WALLACE HENRY THURMAN Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not h...
THURMAN L. FAISON Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human...
ROBERT A.F. THURMAN Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the ...
JUDITH JAMISON I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don'...
JUDITH BUTLER We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...
JUDITH BUTLER A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We c...
JUDITH BUTLER You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless yo...
JUDITH KRANTZ Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
JUDITH BUTLER Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a ...
JUDITH VIORST Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few...
JUDITH ROSSNER But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned w...
JUDITH VIORST The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It'...
JUDITH JAMISON Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ...
JUDITH BUTLER 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe...
JUDITH MARTIN There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
JUDITH ANDERSON Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I...
JUDITH ROSSNER Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers m...
JUDITH MARTIN Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a h...
JUDITH VIORST Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and...
JUDITH GUEST A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?"

-Royce Westmorelan...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Here is the same clock that walked quietly
Through those enormous years I half recall,
When b...
JUDITH WRIGHT If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universit...
JUDITH MARTIN It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It ...
JUDITH ROSSNER One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with y...
JUDITH VIORST One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls ...
JUDITH VIORST You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and th...
JUDITH VIORST Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble ...
JUDITH VIORST There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food...
JUDITH MARTIN An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to
keep.
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is co...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat...
JUDITH VIORST There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, someth...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT It's true love because if he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them and the next mo...
JUDITH VIORST Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
JUDITH STERN Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as n...
JUDITH VIORST Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving ven...
JUDITH GUEST There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.
JUDITH ANDERSON Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
JUDITH JAMISON Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them...
JUDITH OLNEY For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
JUDITH GUEST I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
JUDITH KRANTZ We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to partici...
JUDITH MARTIN Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."
JUDITH VIORST Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
JUDITH MARTIN If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach ...
JUDITH HAYES We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it?...
JUDITH JAMISON Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
JUDITH VIORST Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then ...
JUDITH VIORST Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knoc...
JUDITH VIORST Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation...
JUDITH MARTIN We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate i...
JUDITH MARTIN A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
JUDITH BROCKLEHURST I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance ...
JUDITH BUTLER We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive ...
JUDITH WRIGHT You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.
JUDITH LIGHT Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socia...
JUDITH WRIGHT Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, maki...
JUDITH VIORST Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
JUDITH BUTLER When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting ...
JUDITH BUTLER It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom a...
JUDITH BUTLER There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constitut...
JUDITH BUTLER Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, reveal...
JUDITH KRANTZ I really love being finance director.
JUDITH MCKENNA I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to ...
JUDITH HILL A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues...
JUDITH RODIN As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving y...
JUDITH JAMISON Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock...
JUDITH VIORST I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class...
JUDITH JAMISON Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how ...
JUDITH JAMISON Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any othe...
JUDITH LIGHT The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying ...
JUDITH LIGHT I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety fr...
JUDITH BUTLER One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or so...
JUDITH MARTIN Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery
JUDITH MCNAUGHT To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative me...
JUDITH BUTLER When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can ful...
JUDITH WRIGHT The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawn...
JUDITH BUTLER Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expres...
JUDITH WRIGHT I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware ...
JUDITH WRIGHT My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. ...
JUDITH VIORST When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that d...
JUDITH BUTLER Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then e...
JUDITH VIORST Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled...
JUDITH VIORST Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k...
JUDITH VIORST I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you'...
JUDITH VIORST I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not...
JUDITH JAMISON