Jane Gardam Quotes

For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.

Jane Gardam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 11, 1928

Topics

ChildrenManLawWritingHusband

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

Jennifer Ellison

FamilyHomeTimeSpending TimeYou

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

Jeremy Lin

OthersOutAgainstThunderDraft

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

Andrew Lo

ScienceEconomicsThinkThinking

We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.

Jeffrey C. Mateer

MarriageFaithLosingPeopleSeeing

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Michael Ende

LifeGreatTimeThinkThoughtNever

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.

Stephen Colletti

PowerBeachThoughtEndDramaKnow

Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I know it belongs there; maybe I don't choose to put it there.

Tom Colicchio

ChooseKnowWantTouchUpServer

I usually sleep ten to eight hours per night. I sometimes also have a nap in the afternoon.

Romain Grosjean

SleepNightSometimesNapAfternoon

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

ArtSchoolFunPerformanceComedy

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

Jay Reatard

MeWritingStartThinkYouWrite

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Josh Radnor

CollegeYouWantKindBigWho

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

Jose Manuel Barroso

ControlEventsOutsideRightSteps

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