Jojuan Collins Quotes

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time. ~ Phil Collins

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. ~ Billy Collins

Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done. ~ James C. Collins

The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk. ~ Wilkie Collins

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff. ~ Lily Collins

Because" is a word used by ordered, order-loving beings about a world which they like to think is ordered. "Because" is for storybooks. This is... Well, I know this is difficult to understand, but what we see here is becauselessness itself. ~ Stephen Collins

Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know. ~ Stephen Collins

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. ~ Susan Collins

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision. ~ Billy Collins

And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us. ~ Suzanne Collins

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so. ~ Jimmy Carl Black

by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined ~ James C. Collins

I never go with something in mind. I like having an array of generations in my outfits! ~ Lily Collins

When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles,' Amelie said. 'Not one who ran away from them.'
'Snap,' Eve said.
'You know what they're talking about?' Shane asked.
'Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it. ~ Rachel Caine

Real or not real? I am on fire. ~ Suzanne Collins

Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation. ~ Suzanne Collins

When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet, ~ Jason Collins

Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it. ~ William Collins

Faster!" Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. "You see why I didn't want you to stop?"
"Okay, your father is officially off my Christmas list!" Eve yelled. "Oh my God, look at my car! ~ Rachel Caine

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question? ~ James C. Collins

After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door. ~ Wilkie Collins

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence. ~ Gail Collins

At once, it's clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don't have the arrogance. Apparently, I'm too "vulnerable" for ferocity. I'm not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all. ~ Suzanne Collins

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence. ~ Billy Collins

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before. ~ Phil Collins

An Olympic rowing career had left Porter Collins a bit inured to the pain of others, as he assumed they usually didn't know what pain was. No, ~ Michael Lewis

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character. ~ Lily Collins

Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to. ~ James C. Collins

My sister Sarah, with all the advantages of youth, was, strangely enough, less pliable. She did full justice to Pesca's excellent qualities of heart; but she could not accept him implicitly, as my mother accepted him, for my sake. Her insular notions of propriety rose in perpetual revolt against Pesca's constitutional contempt for appearances; and she was always more or less undisguisedly astonished at her mother's familiarity with the eccentric little foreigner. I have observed, not only in my sister's case, but in the instances of others, that we of the young generation are nothing like so hearty and so impulsive as some of our elders. I constantly see old people flushed and excited by the prospect of some anticipated pleasure which altogether fails to ruffle the tranquillity of their serene grandchildren. Are we, I wonder, quite such genuine boys and girls now as our seniors were in their time? Has the great advance in education taken rather too long a stride; and are we in these modern days, just the least trifle in the world too well brought up? ~ Wilkie Collins

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right. ~ Suzanne Collins

A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe. ~ Suzanne Collins

What's going on in your head?"
"I don't know," I whisper back.
"Then it's like kissing someone who's drunk. It doesn't count. ~ Suzanne Collins

But his arms are there to comfort me, and eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that. So after, when he whispers, "You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him "Real. ~ Suzanne Collins

I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, "Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear." I decide to go ahead and like Boggs. ~ Suzanne Collins