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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.


Joanna Scott

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KELLY JONES We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN When you make it an issue, it does not just become an issue, but it also grows to become a history a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A person,who is being made to slog under an internal pressure in a workplace, can easily fizzle out ...
ANUJ SOMANY In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anything man can make, man can destroy.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.
ASHIM SHANKER All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And...
PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.
PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.
PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the ...
PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of ...
PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.
MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becom...
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be c...
PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time...
PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ...
PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.
PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but.
PAUL DICKSON The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ...
JOHN C. DANFORTH The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le...
DENNIS PRAGER Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ough...
JAMES MADISON Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
DAN BROWN An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness...
CHERYL R COWTAN Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most im...
C.G. JUNG Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace i...
WENDY MASS Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS "The past is always subject to the change that the present brings to the future.
JAIME CONTRERAS Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi...
C. JOYBELL C. Blood that was warm has now run cold
bled every day have hearts become old
Telling I am th...
PRABHUKRISHNA M The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Fuck the past. This was the present.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be...
AMANDA WARD EYRE Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con...
FRANKLIN GILLETTE The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scra...
JUDITH VIORST life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
JOHN GRISHAM Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measur...
B.R. AMBEDKAR Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always anot...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ...
PATRICK DOWNES Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the lov...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows...
SOCRATES I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination.
ABHIJIT NASKAR I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easi...
FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the ...
BRANDY HEINEMAN God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL Peace within us starts when we learn to forgive and let go
MIMI NOVIC The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
GLEN COOK Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, yo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I do not serve and never will serve the human body. I serve only the human soul - the soul that is t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Be different from the herd. Let your stripes shine bright. Even if that means you might be eaten by ...
JP We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture.
TOM ALTHOUSE No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.
CARROLL BRYANT Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential ...
GABRIELLE UNION Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effe...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY

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JOANNA SCOTT The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because ...
JOANNA SCOTT I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can'...
JOANNA SCOTT If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the...
JOANNA SCOTT While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort...
JOANNA SCOTT How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they...
JOANNA SCOTT NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to t...
JOANNA LUMLEY Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier b...
JOANNA LUMLEY Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? P...
JOANNA LUMLEY I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunt...
JOANNA LUMLEY I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boil...
JOANNA LUMLEY I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I out...
JOANNA GARCIA But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.
JOANNA BAILLIE Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
JOANNA RUSS In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to p...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...
JOANNA BAILLIE Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And...
JOANNA BAILLIE Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure ...
JOANNA BAILLIE Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat. Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-not...
JOANNA BAILLIE Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brai...
JOANNA BAILLIE An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
JOANNA FIELD The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
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JOANNA BAILLIE I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator,...
JOANNA LUMLEY A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
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JOANNA KRUPA A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bit...
JOANNA LUMLEY No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel li...
JOANNA KRUPA Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There&#...
JOANNA LUMLEY I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew...
JOANNA LUMLEY The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
JOANNA NEWSOM As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you ...
JOANNA LUMLEY You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I ...
JOANNA LUMLEY As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
JOANNA LUMLEY I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's...
JOANNA LUMLEY Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
JOANNA LUMLEY Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if y...
JOANNA LUMLEY Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly l...
JOANNA LUMLEY I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my...
JOANNA GOING The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, t...
JOANNA LUMLEY I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some r...
JOANNA LUMLEY When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ba...
JOANNA KRUPA I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves ma...
JOANNA LUMLEY Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire hi...
JOANNA TROLLOPE Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
JOANNA BAILLIE I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.
JOANNA KRUPA My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs...
JOANNA LUMLEY I think that's the most beautiful thing about being confident - just loving yourself, not caring...
JOANNA KRUPA I'm always looking for what there is to see that's weird and wonderful and off the beaten pa...
JOANNA GOING I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
JOANNA LUMLEY While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving mys...
JOANNA KRUPA I'm a curvy girl, and I'm a real girl.
JOANNA GARCIA Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in...
JOANNA LUMLEY Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it...
JOANNA LUMLEY I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'
JOANNA GOING I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America....
JOANNA LUMLEY I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged...
JOANNA LUMLEY To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would hav...
JOANNA LUMLEY Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, ...
JOANNA BAILLIE The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, ...
JOANNA BAILLIE It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single b...
JOANNA LUMLEY Sexiness has its different roles.
JOANNA KRUPA I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I...
JOANNA LUMLEY When you do a good job, you'll feel like people are bothering you. If you have a product that's inte...
JOANNA ANGEL I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived pu...
JOANNA FIELD I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.
JOANNA FIELD Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
JOANNA BAILLIE The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose nobl...
JOANNA BAILLIE A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
JOANNA BAILLIE Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely...
JOANNA LUMLEY You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be...
JOANNA LUMLEY Everything that you do in this entertainment business, you build a fan base.
JOANNA KRUPA They always come up to me and say, 'I want those shoes, can I have yours?'
JOANNA HAYES Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I c...
JOANNA RUSS I feel the sexiest when my fiance tells me - when I wake up in the morning and my hair is a mess and...
JOANNA KRUPA I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
JOANNA NEWSOM I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that ...
JOANNA GARCIA When they come in, I grab them and I hug them and I ask them if they are thirsty. The stories are un...
JOANNA CLARK Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.
JOANNA KRUPA I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, t...
JOANNA LUMLEY There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missin...
JOANNA LUMLEY I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn&...
JOANNA LUMLEY It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each ot...
JOANNA LUMLEY In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the...
JOANNA LUMLEY I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous...
JOANNA TROLLOPE You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
JOANNA TROLLOPE My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral ...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But ...
JOANNA NEWSOM China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd...
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JOANNA LUMLEY I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
JOANNA LUMLEY Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.
JOANNA KRUPA I'm obsessed with leather jackets!
JOANNA GARCIA I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on...
JOANNA LUMLEY In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a c...
JOANNA LUMLEY Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gatheri...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
JOANNA TROLLOPE Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I jus...
JOANNA NEWSOM Treasure means nothing unless it is discovered and even then the value depends entirely on who disco...
JOANNA MOJA Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!/ And if upon its stillness fall/ The visions of a busy brain,/ ...
JOANNA BAILLIE O! who shall lightly say that fame/ is nothing but an empty name?
JOANNA BAILLIE He was not all a father's heart could wish;/ But oh, he was my son! my only son.
JOANNA BAILLIE I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishm...
JOANNA BAILLIE There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
JOANNA LUMLEY I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of d...
JOANNA LUMLEY Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look blo...
JOANNA LUMLEY The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 6...
JOANNA LUMLEY I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistre...
JOANNA KRUPA I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
JOANNA LUMLEY Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
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JOANNA CANNON I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
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JOANNA NEWSOM I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that...
JOANNA LUMLEY Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.
JOANNA LUMLEY I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purpos...
JOANNA FIELD It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them
JOANNA FIELD I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
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JOANNA GARCIA Babe, I nearly shot Skid in the ass one time because a spider fell on me while I was holding a gun,�...
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JOANNA BAILLIE Never buy one of anything and make two boys share it.
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JOANNA AJ I'm not afraid of needles.
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JOANNA RUSS Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perha...
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JOANNA NATHAN There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
JOANNA FIELD Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an anima...
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JOANNA LUMLEY I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
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JOANNA LUMLEY The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
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JOANNA CASSIDY The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
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But the frogs die in ...
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JOANNA LUMLEY There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...
JOANNA RUSS I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is th...
JOANNA LUMLEY There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energ...
JOANNA CASSIDY I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.
JOANNA GAINES I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet...
JOANNA LUMLEY I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but ...
JOANNA LUMLEY I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition o...
JOANNA LUMLEY In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around...
JOANNA MACY Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberati...
JOANNA MACY One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking a...
JOANNA KRUPA It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food eve...
JOANNA LUMLEY It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...
JOANNA RUSS If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and ...
JOANNA RUSS When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and ea...
JOANNA RUSS I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' le...
JOANNA RUSS What did we talk about?

I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got c...
JOANNA RUSS A pretty woman, not a bother? As far as he knew, that was the very definition of the word.
JOANNA SHUPE If you can’t find happiness in the ugliness, you’re not going to find it in the beauty, either.
JOANNA GAINES I always thought that the “thriving” would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned ...
JOANNA GAINES Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or ti...
JOANNA GAINES It's delicious,’ he announces, chewing my sandwich. 'I would like to stay here forever and die wit...
JOANNA MAZURKIEWICZ My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when ...
JOANNA CONNORS I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or p...
JOANNA RUSS Horse: So tell me, brother. How many times you seen The Notebook? 'Cause that's information the boys...
JOANNA WYLDE Horse: Fuckin' knight in shining armor. Might wanna trade your bike in for a pretty pink unicorn to ...
JOANNA WYLDE Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
JOANNA WEAVER The company has been fined by the Council of Labor for its wrongdoing. Now why has it dared to do th...
JOANNA LEI The percentage of US cattle selected for testing is very limited at less than 1 percent. How can the...
JOANNA LEI I figure as long as it's not just raining in my lane, then all eight women will have to go through t...
JOANNA HAYES