Jodi Maxfield quote: "That's one of the things we really pride ourselves in. We still win without being sensational. We focus more on the technical aspect of the dance and the athletics of the dancers."

It's got some very stunning tricks that are incorporated into the dance that just make the audience ...
JODI MAXFIELD

When you're on top, it's always hard to top yourself.
JODI MAXFIELD

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, ...
MAXFIELD PARRISH

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so...
MAXFIELD PARRISH

When you see another person getting upset or angry, it's because they feel unsafe. You do the same. ...
DAVID MAXFIELD

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciatio...
MAXFIELD PARRISH

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the p...
MAXFIELD PARRISH

When people get defensive they're not getting defensive about the content of what you're saying. The...
DAVID MAXFIELD

The military say always salute the flag before you disagree with your commanding officer. If you can...
DAVID MAXFIELD

I have a lot of veterans on this club and we know that they're going to perform; the key to our team...
MARK MAXFIELD

It's a long trip and I'm satisfied. We're capable of playing better, but Forks is certainly a much-i...
MARK MAXFIELD

This is a really strange incident. We don't have these things happen in the winter. If it's a canal ...
LT. DANA MAXFIELD

_Vacuum tubes_ are known as _valves_ in England. This is based on the fact that they can be used to ...
CLIVE MAX MAXFIELD

The moving water creates a lot of force and it will push somebody up into an area where they can't g...
LT. DANA MAXFIELD

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition...
JODI PICOULT

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first gla...
JODI PICOULT

I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...You do...
JODI PICOULT

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on...
JODI PICOULT

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank p...
JODI PICOULT

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.
JODI PICOULT

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
JODI PICOULT

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at leas...
JODI PICOULT

Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usua...
JODI PICOULT

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...
JODI PICOULT

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover...
JODI PICOULT

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened whe...
JODI PICOULT

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone f...
JODI PICOULT

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice ...
JODI PICOULT

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wis...
JODI PICOULT

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
JODI PICOULT

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and ...
JODI PICOULT

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have...
JODI PICOULT

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even...
JODI PICOULT

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the...
JODI PICOULT

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
JODI PICOULT

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
JODI PICOULT

Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found...
JODI MEADOWS

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
JODI PICOULT

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know...
JODI PICOULT

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with...
JODI PICOULT

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of ...
JODI PICOULT

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
JODI PICOULT

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewi...
JODI PICOULT

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. ...
JODI PICOULT

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire und...
JODI PICOULT

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard...
JODI PICOULT

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s be...
JODI PICOULT

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's som...
JODI PICOULT

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
JODI PICOULT

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or whe...
JODI PICOULT

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you ...
JODI PICOULT

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
JODI PICOULT

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
JODI PICOULT

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
JODI PICOULT

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
JODI PICOULT

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
JODI PICOULT

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same...
JODI PICOULT

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up cr...
JODI PICOULT

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants ri...
JODI PICOULT

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a...
JODI PICOULT

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
JODI PICOULT

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
JODI PICOULT

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
JODI PICOULT

I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I...
JODI PICOULT

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
JODI PICOULT

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expe...
JODI PICOULT

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy...
JODI PICOULT

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your fu...
JODI PICOULT

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
JODI PICOULT

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...
JODI PICOULT

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked...
JODI PICOULT

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
JODI PICOULT

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that sh...
JODI PICOULT

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that th...
JODI PICOULT

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon bel...
JODI KANTOR

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this paren...
JODI BENSON

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance p...
JODI RELL

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to...
JODI RELL

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
JODI RELL

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to wo...
JODI RELL

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation t...
JODI RELL

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office Jul...
JODI RELL

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In ...
JODI RELL

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other...
JODI RELL

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourse...
JODI RELL

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and b...
JODI RELL

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.
JODI RELL

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ev...
JODI PICOULT

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
JODI PICOULT

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing somethin...
JODI PICOULT

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to g...
JODI PICOULT

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you w...
JODI PICOULT

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. Howev...
JODI PICOULT

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital...
JODI PICOULT

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yo...
JODI PICOULT

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like ...
JODI PICOULT

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but ther...
JODI PICOULT

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, n...
JODI PICOULT

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
JODI PICOULT

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
JODI PICOULT

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange...
JODI PICOULT

God, what had we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I...
JODI PICOULT

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
JODI PICOULT

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Every...
JODI PICOULT

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event....
JODI BENSON

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who i...
JODI KANTOR

Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn...
JODI PICOULT

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
JODI PICOULT

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, y...
JODI PICOULT

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - an...
JODI PICOULT

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't und...
JODI PICOULT

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, ...
JODI PICOULT

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they ...
JODI PICOULT

When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
JODI THOMAS

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
JODI PICOULT

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why ...
JODI PICOULT

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time u...
JODI PICOULT

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.
JODI PICOULT

Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.
JODI PICOULT

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
JODI RELL

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.

Or at least thi...
JODI PICOULT

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep d...
JODI PICOULT

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or...
JODI PICOULT

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
JODI PICOULT

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d l...
JODI PICOULT

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, ...
JODI PICOULT

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we'v...
JODI PICOULT

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
JODI PICOULT

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the...
JODI PICOULT

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.
JODI PICOULT

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under...
JODI PICOULT

An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they...
JODI PICOULT

...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her...
JODI PICOULT

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ...
JODI PICOULT

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if the...
JODI KANTOR

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. T...
JODI PICOULT

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in t...
JODI PICOULT

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and ...
JODI PICOULT

Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
JODI PICOULT

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
JODI PICOULT

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that ...
JODI PICOULT

Intuition is a gift from God, it is your birthright. What you do with it is your gift back.
JODI LIVON

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis ...
JODI PICOULT

Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likel...
JODI PICOULT

When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about y...
JODI BENSON

Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially wi...
JODI BENSON

A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania's coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for ...
JODI BALFOUR

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born str...
JODI PICOULT

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have al...
JODI PICOULT

Federal law is quite clear: Air National Guard units cannot be moved without the express permission ...
JODI RELL

Tuition at our institutions of higher learning is slowly but surely being priced out of reach for mi...
JODI RELL

When they asked Connecticut, we knew our facts and we had the documentation to back it up and it pai...
JODI RELL

We have hit the crossroads today.
JODI RELL

The freedoms we grant to quasi-public agencies must not be allowed to become a license for excesses,...
JODI RELL

We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather ...
JODI MEADOWS

You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So y...
JODI PICOULT

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
JODI PICOULT

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrif...
JODI PICOULT

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi...
JODI PICOULT

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
JODI PICOULT

I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r...
JODI BENSON

Lisa called me here in Alabama and told me about this. And, I'm only about 3½ hours from Hattiesbur...
JODI COLLINS

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?
JODI PICOULT

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just ...
JODI PICOULT

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giv...
JODI PICOULT

I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light.
JODI LIVON

You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
JODI PICOULT

Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he...
JODI PICOULT

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and j...
JODI PICOULT

Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It make...
JODI PICOULT

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ...
JODI PICOULT

Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what t...
JODI PICOULT

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always unde...
JODI PICOULT

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
JODI PICOULT

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how muc...
JODI PICOULT

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
JODI PICOULT

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev...
JODI PICOULT

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones...
JODI PICOULT

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right....
JODI PICOULT

It's choice that makes us human.
JODI PICOULT

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha...
JODI PICOULT

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the...
JODI PICOULT

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
JODI PICOULT

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
JODI PICOULT

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
JODI PICOULT

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do...
JODI PICOULT

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i...
JODI PICOULT

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want...
JODI PICOULT

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ...
JODI PICOULT

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
JODI PICOULT

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
JODI PICOULT

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y...
JODI PICOULT

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
JODI PICOULT

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...
JODI PICOULT

I know you love me. The question is, how much?
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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge...
JODI PICOULT

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a...
JODI PICOULT

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...
JODI PICOULT

That's one of the things we really pride ourselves in. We still win without being sensational. We focus more on the technical aspect of the dance and the athletics of the dancers.

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That's one of the things we really pride ourselves in. We still win without being sensational. We focus more on the technical aspect of the dance and the athletics of the dancers.

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