Jay Parini Quotes

Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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GodQueenFunRedBlueHusband

I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.

John Grant

LoveMusicI Love

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

John Coltrane

TiredYouBackGoWantWay

Changing a habit or routine doesn't happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take easing into the change to make it work for you. Waking up earlier is no exception.

John Rampton

WorkChangeTimeHabitYouRoutine

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

Alyson Hannigan

SchoolFameThingsThoseAcademy

Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a driver's skills, and I think that's what makes it so beautiful to drive.

Romain Grosjean

BeautifulChallengesDriveThink

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Michael Jordan

NegativeThoughtRole ModelNever

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

HappinessPathProgressAmericaLies

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

Lord Byron

NameYouDownGoWillDepend

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

Chris Adrian

RelationshipYouDonePossibleUp

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

Christine Quinn

PeopleThinkPerfectDeserveChances

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Brendon Urie

MeAttentionLookI CanKidAlways

I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.

Alice Ripley

GrowthThoughtPersonalMattersBeen

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