Jill Telford Quotes

People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one? ~ Jill Telford

I don't like to spend money; I like to spend time . ~ Jill Telford

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child. ~ Jill Telford

I don't really enjoy experiencing pain. No one does. But we will become less human if we learn to detach ourselves from one another to the point that when we experience death of a beautiful being (our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers, our soul mates, our friends etc.) that it will not bother us that we will not feel. But see that's suppression. It will bother us somewhere deep inside. So, love someone. Hold them tight. Don't fear the loss. Fear the part of being too afraid to love someone. Love Everyone. It's inevitable: we all die. Thats the ugly part of life. But Love and being alive is so beautiful and so strong that the love, the memories stay even in death. Life is love, life is being alive to feel pain. The love the beautiful love always remains. Love. Life. Joy. Peace ~ Jill Telford

Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe. ~ Jill Telford

Meet people where they are at in life.
The rest handles itself. ~ Jill Telford

Write as though your life depended on it. ~ Jill Telford

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it. ~ Jill Telford

She wanted to and believed she could
- so she did. ~ Jill Telford

My heart is bigger than my fist. ~ Jill Telford

Don't just read to read. Read to understand. ~ Jill Telford

It doesn't matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful "stuff" but it's the care and commitment of a teacher. What matters most is a true teacher with the real stuff inside and helping others discover that real stuff inside themselves. ~ Jill Telford

Children who need the most love - will show it in the most unloving of ways. ~ Jill Telford

Stop. Shooting. Stars burn out like bullets falling from the sky. ~ Jill Telford

Alchemy 101 turning nothing into something ~ Jill Telford

When someone wants you and only you.
They'll apply mad pressure.
- If not, you're just something to do. ~ Jill Telford

When you don't forget you were once a scrappy kid from Scranton and you hustle until your family is set when you're gone.
HUSTLE, like no one is awake.
Day or night. Sunrise - sunset.
Hustle quietly,
when the lights are on and when
the lights are off. ~ Jill Telford

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. ~ Jill Telford

While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful; feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful. ~ Jill Telford

Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living. ~ Jill Telford

Change? Start by keeping a small promise. ~ Jill Telford

The only thing we should scream into the world is love. ~ Jill Telford

You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off. ~ Jill Telford

There is no way to clearly capture or sum up life ... when fully lived. ~ Jill Telford

Just do what makes sense. ~ Jill Telford

Screaming love even when I'm ether. ~ Jill Telford

Understand something. Fall back from the old times and ways of doing things. Chemistry is deeper than the feels. ~ Jill Telford

Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way. ~ Jill Telford

Forget the American dream ... whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night ... the thing that makes you happy ... the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing ... label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost. ~ Jill Telford

I wish we lived in a world where we'd be able to survive off our talents not money ~ Jill Telford

Read as though your life depends on it. ~ Jill Telford

Imagine going a long time without seeing someone you love. Then after months or years getting the moment to see them and catch up. I think that's what death is like. Going a long time and missing them a lot, more and more each day. No matter how many years go by you miss them just as much as the first day they left. I miss my mom. Its been years. Its easier to manage but I miss her more and more. But I often think of the moment we will meet again and catch up again. In living life going a long time not seeing someone is tough then catching up right where you left off BUT imagine in death how powerful the feeling to see them again must be. Death is getting the chance to catch up and see them again. Experiencing the butterflies and that special high that is felt all over your body. Do not fear death. Embrace it as you do life. In life, love hard! Life moves fast. For when your time comes you have a chance to love hard again and catch up with those that left, those you've missed and those that missed you. Someone is there counting the days to seeing you again. Some you may not expect or some you've missed just as much. Don't fear what you think you're leaving behind. Don't fear at all. For what you leave is temporary, the living will too join you as you wait for them. And, that moment to catch up is worth the wait. You will pick up right where you left off as if time did not pass. ~ Jill Telford

An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself. ~ Jill Telford

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming. ~ Jill Telford

The only reality is the now. Why live in the tomorrows and the yesterdays? Live now. ~ Jill Telford

You may not always get what you want but you'll always get what you need. ~ Jill Telford

Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly. ~ Jill Telford

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children ~ Jill Telford

Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt. ~ Jill Telford

It's not what happens. It's how you handle it. ~ Jill Telford

Law of Attraction 101 - the basics.
Don't waste someone's time if you don't want them wasting yours. ~ Jill Telford

The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom. ~ Jill Telford

Old situations will emerge just to test you. Don't go backwards. Don't do it. Move forwards. Stay moving. Stay true to you ~ Jill Telford

Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one? ~ Jill Telford

Reading to understand and writing to be understood. ~ Jill Telford

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. ~ Jill Telford

Never say how you feel, more than once. They heard you, the first time. ~ Jill Telford

Do the thing that scares you. ~ Jill Telford

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that! ~ Jill Telford

And, again, this story needs to be revised, is under revision as I type these words. The only way to write an autobiography, I suppose, is to keep writing indefinitely. As soon as your fingers stop moving, this act - your fingers stalling on the keyboard - changes the story. There. I can't keep up. And this idea that it should all be working toward something, that the autobiographical subject in the present tense should be working through the biggest puzzle of her life and arriving somehow at... something. Something big. At what? Happiness? Understanding? Forgiveness? A baby? A book?

I have not arrived. ~ Jill Christman

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. ~ Jill Bolte Taylor

I have a few reservations. Usually when humanity begins to play God with technology the ramifications are frequently, severly detrimental." Martine explained. ~ Jill Thrussell

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance? ~ Jill Konrath

I leaned my back against an oak Thinking it was a trusty tree. But first it bent, And then it broke And let me down as my love did me. - "The Water Is Wide," traditional folk song ~ Jill Barnett

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family. ~ Jill Soloway

Magazines were new. The Gentleman's Magazine - the first periodical called a "magazine" - appeared in London in 1731. It offered "a Monthly Collection, to treasure up, as in a Magazine, the most remarkable Pieces."3 The metaphor is to weapons. A magazine is, literally, an arsenal; a piece is a firearm. ~ Jill Lepore

At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong. ~ Jill Soloway

Well, it looks like you're on a mission to kill someone," Grace said. "And since you won't look good in an orange jumpsuit, I thought we could discuss."
"I'd totally rock an orange jumpsuit."
"No one rocks orange. Talk to me. ~ Jill Shalvis

Why can't men think with two body parts at the same time? Is it in your blood? Is it just in the genes? What? ~ Jill Shalvis

A stranger came to their door one day. He was singularly unattractive - very little hair covering his hideous, sore-wracked skin, just generally ratty and nasty looking. But as is often said of the unbeautiful of the world, he had a great personality. He came to be known a "Funkdog", because he was, in fact, a dog, and he was funky. And so they started this thing of petting Funkdog with a small stick. That image always just made me want to bawl, and now I know why. I think Funkdog being petted with a stick is a perfect metaphor for what can happen to any of us in this life if we don't pay attention. In any area of our lives, things can go from great to not so hot, to downright unspeakable, and do it so gradually that we keep downshifting our expectations to correspond with our current situation. We settle for less and less and tell ourselves,"It's not so bad", until one day we wake up and we are in effect, hairless and scabby, and just hoping to get petted with a stick for a little while. ~ Jill Conner Browne

There isn't any poison oak in the winter. It's hard to convince a girl you're sexy when you can't stop scratching your ass because of the rash. -Jax Cullen ~ Jill Shalvis

Heat skittered through her belly, then directly south. "Sawyer."
In answer, he brought his head up and kissed her. Deep, hungry, tasting her in a purposely slow, thorough manner before pulling back to once again look into her eyes.
Oh, God. "Sawyer, what are we doing?" she whispered.
He shook his head. "No f#cking clue. ~ Jill Shalvis

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel. ~ Jill Shalvis

An obsession is a defense against feeling out of control. A compulsion is the failure of that defense. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

A few moments ago, he'd had her up against a wall, skirt shoved up to her belly button, hands in her panties, his fingers driving her straight to oblivion, and now ... now he was this intense, cool, calm, and collected man.
With a gun.
"Breanne. Are you ok?"
She stared at him. He had his shirt loose and draped over the bulge of his gun. He looked rough-and-tumble. Baddass.
Damn it, she had a serious weakness for badass. ~ Jill Shalvis

Give me," she said.
"Don't you mean please give me?"
"You want me to beg?"
That smile spread slightly. "Nah. I just heard you beg plenty."
"I did not beg." But she had. She so had. Still grinning, still naked, he pulled her against him and pressed his mouth to her shoulder. "My panties, Mark. ~ Jill Shalvis

Mistletoe." Lorie snatched up the dried spirg, and held it to her chest like it was a bar of gold ...
"It's for you."
"You want to kiss me? Well, why didn't you just say so?" Hope leaned in and puckered up. "Give me your best shot."
Laughing, Lorie shoved her away.
"I don't want to kiss you. I want someone else to kiss you. A penis-carrying someone. ~ Jill Shalvis

No pain ever takes full leave of its person. That pain is greedy and doesn't give ground. That a body remembers what hurts it and how. Old pains get swallowed by new pains. But newer pains always follow suit. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the past and the present. It's what history and politics share - a vantage on the past - that makes writing the history of politics fraught. And it's what they don't share that makes the study of history vital. Politics is accountable to opinion; history is accountable to evidence. ~ Jill Lepore

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house. ~ Jill Lepore

For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory. ~ Jill Scott

You're right. The fact that the entire party of fifty guests caught you and Jill Moench kissing in the closet was a complete misunderstanding." Theo snorted, turning to Penny, "His girlfriend certainly got a surprise at her party. And it wasn't the kind where everyone jumps out from behind the couch to yell, 'Surprise! ~ Katlyn Charlesworth

Adrian kept sending me e-mails, asking me to rescue him (while also offering unsolicited dating advice). Ms. Terwilliger continued her passive aggressive attempts to teach me magic. Eddie continued in his fierce dedication to Jill. And Angeline continued her not-so-subtle advances on Eddie. ~ Richelle Mead

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel. ~ Jill Barnett

Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake. ~ Jill Santopolo

I know I'm the one who put limits on this ... this thing," she said, and bit her lower lip, suddenly nervous. "But I'm pretty sure we're not quite done with each other."
He looked at her for what felt like a long time. "You want another night."
Still unable to take her eyes off his mouth, she didn't muzzle herself. "I want as long as it takes."
He cupped her jaw, lifting her head up so that she was looking into his eyes again. "Don't make promises you can't keep."
"What makes you think I can't keep it?"
"Because you seem to like things one night at a time," he said in that low, sexy voice. "But no way is one more night going to be enough. ~ Jill Shalvis

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. ~ Jill Scott

I don't have time for a stroke! ~ Jill Bolte Taylor

Her dreams felt so far out of reach. She'd faced one of them tonight, faced him in four-inch heels. But four-inch heels didn't make her any younger. She couldn't click her four-inch heels together and find her true way home. Four inches didn't bring her any closer to happiness. Four inches didn't erase the past. ~ Jill Barnett

...he was convinced that if he claimed all the parts he really loved he would be able to make peace with everything else. ~ Jill McCorkle