Jay Parini Quotes

I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we've wasted our souls.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

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Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Johann Georg Hamann

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I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.

Jennifer Ellison

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

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There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

John Edwards

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When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

Melanie Laurent

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I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!

Tom Ford

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It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

Mitch Hedberg

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I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

Liza Minnelli

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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

Christiane Amanpour

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My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

Chuck Zito

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I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

Boman Irani

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There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

Wyatt Cenac

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