Watkins Quotes

We can all name people we take for granted, because everybody's swamped. Overwhelmed. Harried. We mean to make memories with people who matter, but often, we put it off for someday. And someday morphs into never, as Life's unpredictability claims the people we love. ~ Andra Watkins

In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful. ~ Steve Watkins

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that. ~ Tionne Watkins

But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After ~ Steve Watkins

She was addicted to the pain. Addicted to the drama. Addicted to the cat and mouse game. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today. ~ Sara Watkins

Daily life makes us all susceptible to accumulating stress, mostly due to the non-stop demands and pressures of juggling work, home and personal responsibilities. This stress revs up the nervous system, causing the brain to flood the body with hormones that trigger overreacting, irrational thinking, and even insomnia. After years of unavoidable exposure to the stress reaction with no defense, the nervous system can become severely deteriorated, leaving us defenseless against mental or physical illness and disease.iv As it happens, meditation has been proven as one of the greatest counter-stress solutions.v When practiced daily, meditation can help to restore balance and re-supply much-needed rest to your physiology. Common side effects of daily meditation are increased energy and feelings of contentedness and inner happiness.vi ~ Light Watkins

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. ~ Michaela Watkins

It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that. ~ Michaela Watkins

The sooner that Layla understands that we are nothing but the sum of that which we endure, the better. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality. ~ Kevin Watkins

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all. ~ Michaela Watkins

Tricey eventually forgave me for falling in love with Taij, but Lyric never did. Besides, ~ Jessica N. Watkins

God is never late, but He sure is slow. ~ James N. Watkins

Blood knew that I didn't love him how I should, that's why he suddenly didn't want me to communicate with Amiel. And knowing that this man has never asked twice about taking care of and loving me, but knew that I didn't love him like I should, hurt me to the core. I knew that feeling. Amiel was the birth of that feeling in my heart. It ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible. ~ Michaela Watkins

Being a leader is hard; being an honest one harder still ~ David B. Watkins

I was the one that almost got shot in the head by my boyfriend. What the hell was she crying about? It ~ Jessica N. Watkins

It is painfully obvious that I have fallen out of love with my husband. It is also painfully obvious that Travis is too egotistical to help me fall back in love with him. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Never judge a book by the cover, you may miss out on what could be your favorite book ~ Sharon Watkins

I looked at Tarbox and saw he was a dangerous and ugly man. It was as if he had been born in someone's nightmare, then kicked his way out of their head. ~ Paul Watkins

So I had to further lower his self esteem by ignoring him. I needed the distance to fill his mind with further insecurities that he would be insistent on making go away by showing me otherwise. Feeling ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains ... otherwise they wouldn't race. ~ Sid Watkins

This is an era of violent peace. ~ James D. Watkins

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass. ~ Sara Watkins

Though my initial intent was to cater to him, he took over our sexual experiences by catering to and spoiling me. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time. ~ Tionne Watkins

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something. ~ Michaela Watkins

Now, I've made mistakes. I've lost people. But you've thrown them away. There is an important difference. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

I think that's why I was so adamant to get Simone Campbell. I hated every willing side bitch that walked this earth. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. ~ Kevin Watkins

What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. That word again: purpose. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

You could have told me, but you were loyal to them. But being in that room knowing that they were coming and arguing with Roxy showed me that you were loyal to me too. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they were going to shoot to death with musketry, by order of a court-martial, for desertion. He was being hauled to the place of execution in a wagon, sitting on an old gun box, which was to be his coffin. When they got to the grave, which had been dug the day before, the water had risen in it, and a soldier was baling it out. Rowland spoke up and said, 'Please hand me a drink of that water, as I want to drink out of my own grave so the boys will talk about it when I am dead, and remember Rowland. ~ Sam R. Watkins

Though she promised that she would take care of things, she was ghost, just like I thought. She wasn't answering my text messages, and she was straight sending me to voicemail when I called. I ~ Jessica N. Watkins

[W]hile our souls are meager, nature has surplus. Yet something of the mechanism's subject was indeed dissolved in that silver chloride, flattened then minted as those promiscuous postcards we saw now, which we could not now unsee, for we had accepted unawares a bit of the Canyon each time we saw a photograph of it, and those pieces, filtered and diluted, had accumulated in us, so that we never saw anything for the first time. Perhaps the ugliest of our impulses, to shove the sublime through a pinhole. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

My grandfather was a railroad brakeman, sixty years with the D&H. I'd sit on his lap when I was little, I remember, at the upstairs apartment on Watkins Avenue in Oneonta overlooking the tracks, and we'd look out at the yard together and watch the trains hooking up, and he'd pull his gold watch out of his vest pocket and squint at the dial, a gold pocket watch, and the bulging surface of the watch case was all scritch-scratched, etched with tiny soft lines, hundreds of tiny scratches, interlaced. And then he'd check the yard, my Grandpa, to see if the trains were running on time. In those days there was a rhythm to everything, there was an order to things, but now we're riding a runaway train that's carrying us all away to that final night where nothing is remembered and nothing matters. ~ Donald O'Donovan

Because Lynn and I worked so close together, our friendship grew into a support system for one another. At the time, I was seeing a psychologist. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists. ~ Tionne Watkins

Though I was more than willing to share my man sexually, I couldn't imagine him dating, holding hands, and courting another woman. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Okay, yes, I bought the damn flowers myself on the way over to Jasmine's. Every time we hung out, she was always going on and on about Kendrick this and Kendrick that. I wanted her to see that I had a nigga sweating me too. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

There was always some savior out in the wilderness, some senator, some patent, some institute, some cell. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

Sometimes we wonder how a particular person can hurt us over and over again, causing us so much pain. We have to realize that when God closes a door, he doesn't intend for us to go around back or try a window. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Matthew Watkins At the first Thanksgiving, one of the bloodiest battles ensued when it was discovered that the deliveryman forgot to bring extra duck sauce. Finn Is God is, on this enchanted evening, in love with a wonderful guy. Julie Seagle Going to write a book called "Binge, Screw, Loathe." It will be about a hateful woman who travels across the US visiting all-you-can-eat brothels. ~ Jessica Park

In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why. ~ Tasker Watkins

You can remove someone from your mind, but the most difficult task is removing them from your heart. No matter how bad a nigga treats you, once you love him, that love for him still misses him when he's gone. ~ Jessica Watkins

I feared Fyte's obsession with Blood and his insanity more than death. As ~ Jessica N. Watkins

The dog wants so bad it doesn't know what it wants, ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

I don't know, maybe it's easier to be lost than found. At least there's energy in lostness. Something to be done. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

opening argument ~ Ronald Watkins

It was heartbreaking to know that Lucky was so loyal that he had willingly entered that lion's den to spare Blood. I saw in Blood's eyes day after day that he was a changed man after that. Yet, ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Merrett suddenly didn't look at ease anymore. "Lydia . . . what did you write on the name tag?" She tilted her head at him as she answered. "I wrote Watkins' name on it. ~ Ian Mitchell Gill

I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with. ~ Michaela Watkins

Living a hard life with niggas whose loyalty was only for the streets, and never for a woman, was embedded in me. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I know women who are not in the lifestyle wouldn't understand this, but watching Melanie arouse my man made my pussy wet. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Demons live in all of us. There's only one difference between Luptators and humans- it's our ability to control them. ~ Tyler Watkins

There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time. ~ Sara Watkins

Read Talking With Young Children About Adoption by Susan Fisher, M.D., and Mary Watkins, Ph.D. (Yale University Press, 1995). ~ Sherrie Eldridge

I didn't care who she killed or what other crimes she committed- I couldn't let my sister sit in that jail and rot. I'm ~ Jessica N. Watkins

One way to say all this is, Our mother was an addict and she overdosed.

Another way is, Our mother was suicidal and she killed herself.

Another way is, Our mother was poor and ignored and dismissed for years by doctors who put her on legal and extremely profitable heroin, which eventually killed her.

Another way is, Our mother needed help and no one, including us, gave it to her. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

No, Mo," Miss Watkins said, turning to Nesta who was crying with laughter. "Nesta Williams, seeing as you clearly find it so funny. What do you think the name of God might be?"
"Er, not sure," said Nesta, looking caught out. "What do you think?"
"I don't think," said Miss Watkins."I know."
"I don't think I know either," giggled Nesta. The whole class got detention, but it was worth it. I felt like i'd spent the whole morning laughing my head off
We never did get to know what God's name was. ~ Cathy Hopkins

He looked up. "Did you just leave them where they were?" Watkins nodded. "I thought we ~ Rhys Bowen

The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

Later, when I walked Littleberry out to his Vespa, he asked if he could kiss me.
'Well, yeah,' I said, my heart thumping. Finally.
'I'm a really good kisser,' he added, as if I still needed him to talk me into it. ~ Steve Watkins

We were both damaged goods that had a hand in damaging each other further. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife. ~ Tionne Watkins

Don't diss the caterpillar and then sweat it when it starts to turn into a beautiful butterfly. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Behind his eyes was emotional pain because I had hurt him. I was in pain because he had crossed me. "Boss, ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Luz's father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life. ~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

It's not the hurt pride. It's the lack of love. It's gut wrenching. I mean, a family is an attempt to create a private world of trust in a storm and then it just all gets blown to shit and all the bits get scattered and lost. Everything falls apart. ~ Daniel Watkins

Chance's public defender hadn't been any help whatsoever. He rarely answered my calls. When we finally talked, he wasn't any help. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

never expected. And, at the end, I only had one plea. I hoped the Trace seared us into its soul. When people traveled it in a thousand years, maybe a few of them would hear my parents and me. In fallen leaves and birdsong. In the echo of their own footsteps. In a field of daffodils winking in the breeze. I stood next to the Natchez Trace Parkway sign, flanked by my parents. When I smiled into the camera, with one arm around each of them, I made one final addendum. I wanted to recall every molecule of our adventure. The sound ~ Andra Watkins

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. ~ James D. Watkins

Hoosiers aren't quitters. California people are quitters. No offense. It's just you've got restlessness in your blood.' 'I don't,' she said, but he went on. 'Your people came here looking for something better. Gold, fame, citrus. Mirage. They were feckless, yeah? Schemers. That's why no one wants them now. Mojavs. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most. ~ Jermaine Watkins

A promise unkept will take a man's mind. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

Physically a lot hadn't changed, but emotionally, I was getting better. Rather than letting the usual insecurities and stresses get to me, I had been staying prayed up. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington ... ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

You don't love people," he said. "You love what they do to you. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

Monday night, I miscarried. Just as the doctor explained, I took the pill that afternoon and by sometime in the wee hours of the morning, I miscarried. Vic was there with me for support. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Bed biting my nails and damn near in tears. Part of me wanted to just tell him what was about to happen so that he could prepare himself. Yet, I couldn't figure out who I owed my loyalty to. Benz, ~ Jessica N. Watkins

I wouldn't exactly call what I was doing prostitution. As a matter of fact, I didn't put any labels on how I made money. It was simply called doin' what I had to do. My ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth. ~ James N. Watkins

'SNL' was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't have any regrets. ~ Michaela Watkins

The dots had begun to connect. It wouldn't take long for the police to connect me to purchasing the phone that Chance had been using. It wouldn't take long for them to retrieve the text messages and hundreds of phone calls between me and "Reginald Barner". I didn't know how they had connected the dots, but they were connected. It was time for me to run before they fully connected to me. For ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

We had experienced the best and the worst of love, sex, and lies. Every heartbreak, every lie, every cheat, every test, ~ Jessica N. Watkins

the sign of a completely healthy mind is the ability to tell a truly sick joke or make a sick comment and laugh at it yourself. ~ L. Lee Watkins

back, and then sit ~ Steve Watkins

Because of escorting, I often had sex twice in one day; with a client and with the man that I was seeing intimately. It ~ Jessica N. Watkins

Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins

I knew that this was her last run when I was on my way over here, so her threats were meaningless. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

The true source of economic security is self-reliance and economic freedom - Social Security is immoral because it subverts both. ~ Don Watkins

I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person. ~ Michaela Watkins

Our relationship was different, therefore successful, because James and I understood each other's sexuality. He loves women; loves them. He was very honest with me about his insatiable appetite for the opposite sex. ~ Jessica N. Watkins

You OK?'
'Yeah,'
He didn't believe me, I guess, because he put his arms around me, and we did an awkward sort of hug. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes, with the snow falling harder around us, and the early winter wind picking up, until I melted, and let my head rest on his shoulder, and closed my eyes to the beautiful, terrible world. ~ Steve Watkins

America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided. ~ Sam Watkins

I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42. ~ Tionne Watkins

The fabric of human life is woven with relationships. Once we thematize the importance of dialogue, the multiplicity of ongoing and created situations in which dialogical skills can be nurtured abound. As we have seen, this requires us to slow down and turn toward each other, having a clear sense of the relationship between our current footing in dialogue with one another and the future we are trying to create. The nurture of dialogical capacities is essential to human liberation. ~ Mary Watkins