Jamie > Jamie's Quotes

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

“Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.”
― Joni Mitchell

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
― Mark Twain

“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off”
― Eric Bogosian, subUrbia

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis.
- Faith”
― Maya Banks, Sweet Surrender

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
― Robin Williams

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”
― Nora Ephron

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
― Golda Meir

“I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.”
― Drew Barrymore

“I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.”
― Janet Evanovich, Twelve Sharp