Joanne Baldwin Quotes

God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken. ~ Rachel Caine

The weather isn't what you think it is. Not by a long shot.
Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin in Ill Wind ~ Rachel Caine

Follow my finger." He moved it around, tracking my eye movements. "Any blurred vision?"
"Well I think I'm hallucinating, because I see a big talking pile of crap." - Joanne Baldwin. ~ Rachel Caine

I believe in family values and following your dreams. ~ JoAnne Myers

My Lord..why did she run?" a bewildered voice asked.

"Because she is a very smart woman...and because I am the biggest fool to ever walk the earth. ~ Joanne Valiukas

She did not know why he so adored things that were so long dead; what sustenance they gave him, what secrets he hoped to wrest from them. But she understood, at least, that they did give him a kind of bitter nourishment, and that the secrets they held for him were a matter of his life and death. It frightened her because she felt that he was reaching for the moon and that he would, therefore, be dashed down against the rocks; but she did not say any of this. ~ James Baldwin

My, you do like to dominate ~ JoAnne Kenrick

Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them. The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on. Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. ~ Joanne Woodward

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. ~ James Baldwin

First off, what the hell kind of name is that?
Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck? ~ Joanne McClean

You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down."
I sighed. "You're kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed."
"NASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket."
"Chicken. ~ Rachel Caine

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. ~ Christina Baldwin

Learn to love yourself for who you are, not just what you do - there is a big difference. ~ Joanne Madeline Moore

In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?"
Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is ... I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last.
Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back. ~ Joanne Harris

Oh, my! Well . . . that ~ Joanne Fluke

According to human accounts, Dracula lived on for centuries – he may still be living. Are you sure he's really dead?' I asked. 'I watched Baldwin rip his head off and bury it thirty miles away from the rest of his body. He was really dead then, and he's really dead now.' Gallowglass looked at me reprovingly. 'You should know better than to believe these human stories, Auntie. They've never got more than a speck of truth in them. ~ Deborah Harkness

If Obama was white, he'd be up by 17 points. ~ Alec Baldwin

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead. ~ Daniel Baldwin

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health. ~ Daniel Baldwin

Perhaps the mirror in Sally's dressing room had waved the wrong way and caused her to look larger than she actually was. And perhaps all that skipping had jumbled her brain and affected her ability to separate reality from wishful thinking. ~ Joanne Fluke

The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong. ~ Joanne Ramos

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own. ~ Adam Baldwin

PANCAKES 3½ cups frozen hash brown potatoes 2 eggs (2 extra large or 3 small) ¼ cup grated onion (or ½ teaspoon onion powder) 1 teaspoon season salt ½ teaspoon black pepper 2 Tablespoons cracker crumbs (matzo meal or flour will also work) 1/8 cup butter (¼ stick, 1 ounce) for frying 1/8 cup good olive oil for frying Toppings for the Table: sour cream applesauce cherry sauce*** blueberry sauce*** apricot sauce*** Hannah's 1st Note: Great-Grandma ~ Joanne Fluke

Come Jack. On the way to Sept-Tours, I will tell you the story about the time Baldwin attempted to banish me from Jerusalem. Many men died. ~ Deborah Harkness

Come on Nerd Girl, tonight I educate on the delights of binge-drinking, flirting and drunken dancing. ~ Joanne McClean

This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. ~ James Baldwin

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. ~ Christina Baldwin

We are in the middle of an immense metamorphosis here, a metamorphosis which will, it is devoutly to be hoped, rob us of our myths and give us our history, which will destroy our attitudes and give us back our personalities. The mass culture, in the meantime, can only reflect our chaos: and perhaps we had better remember that this chaos contains life - and a great transforming energy. ~ James Baldwin

Did he mean me or Jenny Mullendore was a slut?" Joanne wondered. "Because honestly, I don't see how she has the time for slut activities with those two preschoolers of hers. Me, I've got lots of time. ~ Nora Roberts

I never thought I'd have you here. But I don't ever want to live in a world without you in it. You don't have to be with me. You just have to be. ~ Joanne Kennedy

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. ~ James Baldwin

Baldwin told the story again and again of standing on Broadway and being told by Delaney to look down. Delaney asked him what he saw, and Baldwin said a puddle. Delaney said, 'Look again,' and then Baldwin saw the reflections of the buildings, distorted and radiant in the oil on the puddle. He taught me to see, Baldwin said, and that 'what one cannot or will not see, says something about you. ~ Rachel Cohen

The root of the black man's hatred is rage,
and he does not so much had the white man
as simply as want the out of his way,
and, more than that,
out of his children's way.

The root of the white man's hatred is terror,
a bottomless and nameless terror,
which focuses on this dread figure,
an entity which lives only in his mind. ~ James Baldwin

For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words. ~ Joanne Harris

No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt (112) ~ James Baldwin

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. ~ Christina Baldwin

When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. ~ Christina Baldwin

If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy. ~ Joanne Greenberg

It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both. ~ James Baldwin

It's terrible sometimes, inside," he said, "that's what's the trouble. You walk these streets, black and funky and cold, and there's not really a living ass to talk to, and there's nothing shaking, and there's no way of getting it out- that storm inside. You can't talk it and you can't make love with it, and when you finally try to get with it and play it, you realize nobody's listening. So you've got to listen. You got to find a way to listen. ~ James Baldwin

It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do ... is stop moving away. ~ Joanne Harris

Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why. ~ James Baldwin

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. ~ James Baldwin

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves. ~ Stanley Baldwin

Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson ~ Joanne Fluke

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it. ~ James Baldwin

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy. ~ Tammy Baldwin

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. ~ James Baldwin

There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies. ~ Joanne Harris

Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous. ~ Joanne Harris