Jodi Taylor Quotes

In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with inadequate footwear. ~ Jodi Taylor

Whether Henry was a royal trendsetter or it was practical under their helmets, I didn't know. I certainly couldn't think of any other reason for having the most hideous hairstyle in a History that includes Donald Trump. ~ Jodi Taylor

Thanks to you I've involuntarily increased the radiation protection of my biosuit quite substantially. ~ Jodi Taylor

Markham even had our banners ready. The polite NON AD CAPITAGIUM (No to the poll tax), the hopeful MAGIS STIPENDIUM HISTORICI (More money for historians) and the always accurate POLICITI NOSTRAE OMNEC WANKERS SUNT (Most politicians are not very good). ~ Jodi Taylor

It's all very well having these emotional moments, but eventually after two cups of tea, someone has to go to the bathroom. ~ Jodi Taylor

Jenny, I'm so sorry. I think I may have encouraged you to marry a madman.' 'Yes, we're going to be discussing this later. Oh. ~ Jodi Taylor

Some things were above my pay grade. Actually, there were things that slithered on their bellies that were higher than my pay grade. ~ Jodi Taylor

If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The reality was that he pulled me close, whispered, 'Mfhbnnntx,' and I pulled his arm over me like a cover and muttered, 'Trout,' and that was pretty much it. ~ Jodi Taylor

Are you sexually active?' 'No. I usually just lie back and think of the Spartans. ~ Jodi Taylor

The screaming redoubled. You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming. ~ Jodi Taylor

We're St Mary's. We run on tea. The ~ Jodi Taylor

What chest?' I said, because everyone knows if you ignore persistent, throbbing pain then it goes away. Like toothache. And small children. And overdrafts. ~ Jodi Taylor

Get out. Get out of our house. Both of you. It makes me sick just to have you here. You called me a nothing girl. Well, this nothing girl despises you. I'd rather be nothing and loved by Russell Checkland than anything else on earth. You would have ruined his life and he's so much better than you. He's kind and generous and passionate and everything you're not. He will be a great painter one day. And – and he goes like a train. ~ Jodi Taylor

I'm not a surgeon.' 'You don't have to be. You're an engineer. That's almost the same thing.' 'Your ignorance is frightening. ~ Jodi Taylor

The only talents he possessed were delusions of adequacy. ~ Jodi Taylor

If you want someone dead then do it. I keep saying this. Don't gloat – just shoot. ~ Jodi Taylor

In England, the struggle between church and kings would take centuries to resolve. Interestingly, in the end, neither institution came out on top. Today, each is as powerless as the other. As people power emerged, we invented politicians. We're not bright. ~ Jodi Taylor

Partridge was pretending not to lurk near the stairs. 'The body's under the desk,' I said as I passed, just to give her something to worry about. ~ Jodi Taylor

The truth is always important. It may not be popular, or fashionable, or convenient but it is always important. Somewhere there must always be a record of events as they actually occurred. Not the politically airbrushed record, or religious wishful thinking or the socially acceptable version, but the often inconvenient truth.' 'My ~ Jodi Taylor

She picked up a slice of Victoria Sponge, broke it into large pieces and tossed them in their direction. I hadn't had any yet, and could not suppress a small whimper. 'It's for science, Director,' she said. 'We must all make sacrifices. ~ Jodi Taylor

To look away when something terrible is happening does not mean that the terrible thing ceases to happen. Someone ~ Jodi Taylor

Typical St Mary's. When the chips are down we don't whine and we don't run – we do some damage. ~ Jodi Taylor

Despite the Cooper/Hofstadter papers on the subject, ~ Jodi Taylor

I am being nice to you. It's not my fault you're too thick to notice. ~ Jodi Taylor

I know the whole world isn't really out to get me. I'm pretty sure Switzerland is neutral. ~ Jodi Taylor

Dr Maxwell. Why are you wearing a red snake in my office?' 'Sorry, sir. Whose office should I be wearing it in? ~ Jodi Taylor

I made you,' I said darkly. 'I can break you.' He snorted. And ~ Jodi Taylor

Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt. ~ Jodi Taylor

Mr Markham, the box marked "Sex" is not an invitation. Please amend the details and apologise to Mrs Partridge. ~ Jodi Taylor

Strangely, I found the conclusion quite liberating. When you're fucked, you're fucked. Things really can't get much worse. With ~ Jodi Taylor

I'm the world's lightest sleeper. On a bad day, I can make Lady Macbeth look like a raging narcoleptic. ~ Jodi Taylor

There would be a crafts tent and a small local farmers' market for anyone who wanted to buy a small local farmer. ~ Jodi Taylor

No one ever mentions this in stories about time travel. You identify and locate your destination, defy the laws of physics to get there, somehow manage to avoid as many as possible of the huge number of hazards History has littered around the place, manage not to lose or break your very expensive equipment, you're poised to record the History-changing event of your choice, and then you find you can't bloody get in. On ~ Jodi Taylor

There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it's needed. ~ Jodi Taylor

But mostly we're fairly light-hearted because we have to be. People die here, and if we ever stopped and thought carefully about what we do, then we might not do it at all. If ~ Jodi Taylor

Rules give anarchy something to aim at. Points ~ Jodi Taylor

When a man could no longer pay his debts, the soldiers would seize the tabletop he would be using to display his wares (banco) and break it (rotta). Hence, bankruptcy. ~ Jodi Taylor

He'll stand up for you and protect you and kill dragons for you, but he won't always know that sometimes, he's the dragon ~ Jodi Taylor

She fought off a T-rex with just a pepper spray and bad language. You couldn't be in better hands. ~ Jodi Taylor

Society is rigid. Everyone knows everyone else in their world. Everyone has their place in the scheme of things. If you don't belong to a family, a tribe, a village, a guild, whatever, you don't exist then, either. And you can't just pitch up somewhere without mutual acquaintances, recommendations, or letters of introduction. Life on the fringes of society, any society in any time, is tough. ~ Jodi Taylor

I don't know how to put this, but sometimes, you don't know how unhappy someone is until you see them before the unhappiness. ~ Jodi Taylor

It's no good moaning about what evil bastards they were. Men like that would see that as a compliment. Far better to regard them as an insignificant pimple on the arse of your success, don't you think?'

A pause.

'The arse of success?'

I shrugged. 'It's been a long day. Best I could come up with, but you know what I mean. ~ Jodi Taylor

I ever retire, I'm going to buy a house in the centre of town somewhere and name it Sea View, just to give people something to worry about. ~ Jodi Taylor

I could have been a bomb-disposal expert, or a volunteer for the Mars mission, or a firefighter, or something safe and sensible. But no, I had to be an historian. ~ Jodi Taylor

IT, that goes for you too. Any difficulties, tell me, so I can stare at you, baffled and confused. ~ Jodi Taylor

We don't do time-travel. That's for amateurs. We're not time-travellers - we're historians. We 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. so much more classy. ~ Jodi Taylor

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ~ Jodi Picoult

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization. ~ Noah Taylor

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. ~ Jodi Picoult

I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close?
My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado.
We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha.
Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn those moves from Barbie's Hawaiian Vacation DVD?
Ohmigosh, yes! Do your people have that, too? ~ Libba Bray

Pride is love for one's deeds or achievements. Vanity is love for one's ... one, I guess. ~ Corey Taylor

Here's the list of stuff I don't like: apples, the fork in my bowl, Honey Nut Cheerios, eggplant parmesan, worms, watching baseball, and Taylor Swift. ~ Stacy Kramer

I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me. ~ Taylor Swift

There's a scream that can't be silenced.It's rising, growing louder and louder. It's the scream of a child abandoned, suddenly long ago. As the scream echoed then in that alley, it echoes now in my mind. It penetrates all the dark places. It slams into the loss, bounces against the regret.. and the pain. ~ Tom Taylor

She understood now why pain was the tithe for magic: It was more powerful than joy. Than anything.
Than hope? ~ Laini Taylor

A small part of my mind is willing me to walk away now before he has the opportunity to do just that to me, but I find it easy to ignore it. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's
with the fabric of this society itself. ~ Jodi Picoult

I need to have all of you, Ava. Say I can have all of you."
...
"Take me." I say quietly against his lips.'
"Oh, I will. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

It just seems helpful to admit that Christianity is as complicated and conflicted as any other religion, with groups of followers who can believe in the unity of their faith even as they refuse Communion to one another. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people's minds, they were more likely to take a look at new growth and yank it out by its roots as a potential weed, when it could very well have turned into something as harmless as a daisy. ~ Jodi Picoult

Someone who combines HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills might be called a "front-end developer. ~ Kathleen Taylor

Can't you just go peek over the wall? Make sure she doesn't have a Trump sign on her lawn? ~ Jodi Picoult

I'll care for you, love you, support you and so much more.
But do not beg for it when you've abused it.
I can not love you. When your heart doesn't speak the same music. ~ T.Taylor

Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray. ~ Jodi Picoult

So i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction. ~ Jodi Picoult

So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out in beer gardens. And then, I got back from Germany and got a call where they were like, "We need to fly you to New York tomorrow to read with Taylor [Schilling]." I was like, "Wait, for Alex, the manipulative drug-smuggling lesbian girl?!," and they were like, "Yeah." ~ Laura Prepon

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got? ~ Jodi Picoult

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering. ~ John Taylor

I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend. ~ Sarah Hyland

I'm overwhelmed by the stunning incredibility of the truth. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody. ~ Taylor Swift

What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?

And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice? ~ Laini Taylor

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men. ~ Taylor Swift

I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again. ~ James Taylor

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others. ~ Rod Taylor

Our beliefs are so powerful. When we focus on our positive and empowering beliefs, we open the door to miracles. ~ Jodi Chapman

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go. ~ Taylor Swift

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love ~ Jodi Picoult

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected. ~ Bayard Taylor