Jane Leavy Quotes

Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.

Jane Leavy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1951

Topics

VisionRealityImpactBeliefTrauma

I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.

Andrew Whitworth

DayThinkPerfectAlwaysSomething

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Star Jones

ChangeMirrorMyselfDayChoicesUp

My daughter is very happy doing philanthropy, especially in the schools.

Shiv Nadar

DaughterHappyDoingPhilanthropy

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Trey Anastasio

SacrificeMoving ForwardMeMoving

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Robert Ashley

MeTheatreTelevisionKindPossible

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

Roger Daltrey

MyselfSufferUsedBecauseHear

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Rupert Brooke

CatsNightWillRevealLikeCities

Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

Mike Colter

PeopleBlackAmericaTelevisionReal

I used to look at the outfits that I wore when I was 11, and I was like, 'That's really ugly.' I mean, I just thought I was the coolest kid ever and actually wasn't.

Lourdes Leon

UglyThoughtLookMeanKidUsed

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'

Jared Kushner

FatherDirtyFavoriteDozenMovie

I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.

Dean Bakopoulos

WindowSmallFriendsDeskStudy

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

Chris Froome

FamilyTimeI AmParentsHeritage

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