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# Jane Rogers

Jane Rogers (born July 21, 1952) is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher.

## Quotes
### The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011)

    Won the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award. All page numbers from the first US edition published by Harper Perennial
* That’s almost like the daft things you believe when you’re really little, like I use to believe I could fly. I believed it for years, but it had to be kept secret. I knew if I ever told anyone or showed it off to anyone, I’d lose the power. And if I doubted it, and tried it out just to see, I’d lose the power — so I didn’t. I believed in it. I knew I would be able to fly when there really was a need. Which, fortunately for me, there never was.
** Chapter 1 (p. 6)
* I thought it was normal, that’s the thing. When you’re little you think everything is normal. If your mother had a pointed head and green ears you’d think it’s normal. Only when you grow up do you realise that not everybody is like that. Gradually you can even come to learn that the time you are living in is strange too, that it hasn’t always been like this. The more you feel uncomfortable and unconfident and want to find a way to be like everyone else and fit in, the more normality runs away from you because there isn’t any such thing. Or if there is, you have to find someone else who’ll agree with you what it is. Which I seem singularly unable to do.
** Chapter 1 (pp. 6-7)
* But naturally people fussed and objected like they always do when someone tries to do something positive.
** Chapter 7 (p. 46)
* Every other method of resolving this difference of opinion has failed. We are reduced to violence, which is the last resort.
** Chapter 10 (p. 75)
* “If you opt out, you don’t change anything.” “Why should I run round helping to get power for a group of idiots who’ll end up just as dangerous as the ones already in power?” You really don’t think anyone can make things better?” “No. What’s going to happen will happen.”
** Chapter 18 (p. 137)
* “Frankly Jess, on the grand scale—” “You can’t think on the grand scale. You have to think on the small scale. Otherwise no-one’d ever do anything.”
** Chapter 18 (p. 137)
# Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle (January 14 1801 – April 21 1866) was a Scottish writer. She did not publish any work in her lifetime, but she was widely seen as an extraordinary letter writer. Virginia Woolf called her one of the "great letter writers", and Elizabeth Hardwick described her work as a "private writing career". She was the wife of Thomas Carlyle .

## Quotes

* I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
** Letter to Thomas Carlyle (7 May 1822).
* If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!"
** Letter to Thomas Carlyle (20 May 1824]).
* A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
** Letter to Thomas Carlyle (January 1825).
* In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.
** Letter to John Sterling (15 June 1835).
* Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!
** Letter to Eliza Stodart (29 February 1836).
* Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
** Letter to John Sterling (5 August 1845).
* I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.
** Letter to Thomas Carlyle (28 September 1845).
* The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
** Journal entry (August 1849).
* When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
** Journal entry (25 November 1855).
* Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.
** Journal entry (16 July 1858).
* The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset — that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
** Letter to Miss Barnes (24 August 1859).

## Quotes about Carlyle

* Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.
** Leigh Hunt, in "Jenny Kissed Me", in The Monthly Chronicle (November 1838).

## External links

* Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
# Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor (September 23, 1783 – April 13, 1824) was an English poet and novelist. Her sister was Ann Taylor.

## Quotes

* Are we not children, all of us?
** Last Words, quoted in Famous Sayings and their Authors, p. 7
* Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky!
** "The Star," from Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804).
* I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.
** "A Child's Hymn of Praise," from Hymns for Infant Minds (1810).
* Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
** "Prejudice", stanza 45, in Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (London: Taylor and Hessey, 1816), p. 36.
* Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.
** Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.
** For a Very Little Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Bartlett's notes this work to be written by Ann Taylor.

## Misattributed

* Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
** Ann Taylor, "My Mother," from Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804)
* I love little pussy, her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.
** Anon, "Little Pussy," from Hints for the Formation of Infant Schools (1829)

## External links

* Edward Latham: Famous Sayings And Their Authors, Second Edition, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain, 1906
# Jane Monheit

Jane Monheit (born November 3, 1977) is an American jazz singer.

## Quotes

* I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road . . . Well, I can't even believe this is work.
** CNN.com (July 29, 2001)
* It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.
** CNN.com (July 29, 2001)
* I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!
** USA Today (September 24, 2004)
* It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life .
** Mlive.com (July 2, 2005)
* I’ve always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I’ve always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.
** Toronto Star (November 11, 2010) commenting on her first seven studio albums.

## About Jane Monheit

* Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.
** Newstimeslive.com (July 27, 2005) comment from Allison Stockel, artistic director of the Ridgefield (Connecticut) Playhouse.
* It [Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas"] is the happiest Christmas album I've ever heard. That album totally changed the way I look at Christmas albums. I loved what a happy, festive album it truly was . . . it's the best [[music] to have playing when you have a Christmas celebration. I wanted my album to feel just like that.
** jazzreview.com (December 12, 2005)
# Lorne Balfe

Lorne Balfe (23 February 1976 –) is a Scottish composer and producer of film, television, and video game scores.

## Quotes

* Writing music for me is easy, and is less stressful than a nine-to-five job. What I find hard is going to meetings and dealing with lawyers. The Hollywood lifestyle is hectic and often you have to survive on just four hours sleep before starting again.
** Composing a career of note in LA (9 July 2002)

## External links

* Official website
# Lorna Laboso

Lorna Chepkemoi Laboso (8 November 1961 – 10 June 2008) was a Kenyan Politician born in Kericho District of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). She was briefly a Member of Parliament and Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Vice Presidents Office in 2008.

## Quotes

* I want to go rest at home .
** lorna laboso said, (The Standard)
# Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.

## Quotes

* When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
** Bill Carter interview during 1975-76 season, quoted in the February 13, 2015 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine reprinted by Yahoo, Bill Carter on Covering 'SNL' and Lorne Michaels: "Many Lost Their Minds in Pursuit" of His Approval

## Attributed

* I like the story of Chris Rock going on SNL: him telling Lorne "I want to keep my mustache and goatee". And Lorne said to him "In comedy, we put on beards".
** Jerry Seinfeld, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: Season 3: Episode 1 (2014)
# Lorraine Maphala Phiri

Lorraine Maphala-Phiri is a Bulawayo-born nominated Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 at the Megafest Business Awards Southern Region. She was previously crowned Miss Zimbabwe in 2005.

## Quotes

* "Know your worth. Invest in yourself. Know your WHY, in everything you do be intentional. Do at least one thing with your end in mind everyday."
** "All Things Lorraine Maphala-Phiri: Our Forever Beauty Queen Turned Award-Winning Entrepreneur and Proud Mama….", Divas Inc. (March 31, 2021)
* "The fear of poverty and being ordinary inspired me to be an entrepreneur"
** She Leads Africa "Lorraine Maphala Phiri: A brand for every woman who understands the importance of quality over quantity"

## Quote about her

* Winning Miss ZimWinning Miss Zimbabwe 2005 was a life changing moment for me as it opened doors I never thought I could go through. It was fulfilling and rewarding and proved to be a great platform for me to establish my career and brand.babwe 2005 was a life changing moment for me as it opened doors I never thought I could go through. It was fulfilling and rewarding and proved to be a great platform for me to establish my career and brand.

## References

* ↑ https://sheleadsafrica.org/lorraine-maphala-phiri/
# Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer, critic, and essayist. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing.

## Quotes
### Birds of America (1998)
#### "Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People"

* And so they drove on. The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.
* Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in people themselves, all collected there, all together in a single place. No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce- wind, seas- a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world- no flower or stone- as a single hello from a human being.

#### "Community Life"

* But she had no memory of how to be brave. Here, it seemed, she had no memories at all. Nothing triggered them. And once in a while, when shegave voice to the fleeting edge of one, it seemed like something she was making up.

#### "Agnes of Iowa"

* As a vacuum cleaner can start to pull up the actual thread of a carpet, her brains had been sucked dry by too much yoga.
* "Where?" The woman scowled, bewildered. "Iowa," Agnes repeated loudly. The woman in black touched Agnes's wrist and leaned in confidentially. She moved her mouth in a concerned and exaggerated way, like a facial exercise. "No, dear," she said. "Here we say O-hi-o."
* "The United States- how can you live in that country?" the man had asked. Agnes had shrugged. "A lot of my stuff is there," she'd said, and it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home, the deep and arbitary place that happened to be yours.
* Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

#### "Beautiful Grade"

* Every songwriter in their smallest song seems to possess some monumental grief clarified and dignified by melody, Bill thinks. His own sadnesses, on the other hand, slosh about in his life in a low-key way, formless and self-consuming.
# Lorna Maseko

Lorna Maseko (born 3 July 1983), is a South African chef, media personality and former ballet dancer.

## Quotes

* It’s always been my goal and vision to take South African food to the world—what an amazing evening & incredible crowd of people to have in one room, definitely one for the books and a very proud moment!
** Celebrity Chef Lorna Maseko Brings a Taste of South Africa to Hollywood, GOODTHINGSGUY, 29 June 2023 by Ashleigh Fefdt
* There are so many different cuisines in the different regions and in every culture of Africa, If you go to Limpopo National Park to see the big five (lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, and Cape buffalo) you’ll also find the biggest mangos and avocados you’ve ever seen, which all get exported to the rest of the world.
* Everyone gets to enjoy our cuisine but needs to celebrate it a little more. I hope to introduce the cuisine of my home more by doing residencies and pop-ups like this. The best thing about African cuisine is the people who make it and the stories behind them.
** CHEF LORNA MASEKO BRINGS A TASTE OF SOUTH AFRICA TO L.A, LAWEEEKLY ,6 July 2023 by Michele Steven

## References

* ↑ Ferreira, Thinus. "SABC3 in another schedule shake-up with big prime time changes". Channel24. Retrieved 29 October 2021
* ↑ Lorna Maseko official website". Lorna Maseko. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2021

## External Links

* Lorna Maseko on TVSA
# Lorraine Gary

Lorraine Gary (August 16, 1937 –) is a retired American actress.

## Quotes

* I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.
** Lorraine Gary Got a Big Bite of Jaws 2—but Not, She Insists, Because She's the Boss's Wife (August 7, 1978)
# Lorraine Toussaint

Lorraine Toussaint ( born April 4, 1960) is a Trinidadian-American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Black Reel Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

## Quotes

* As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.
* When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful
** https://www.enquoted.com/lorraine-toussaint-quotes.html
# Kingdom of Benin

The Kingdom of Benin, also known as the Edo Kingdom or the Benin Empire (Bini: Arriọba ẹdo), was a kingdom within what is now southern Nigeria.

## Quotes

* The Formosa runs through a fertile and beautiful country, hence the name, and it is said to bring down innumerable floating islands of considerable extent on its waves. The kingdom of Benin chiefly occupies the north-west of this river; and the capital, which contains about 50,000 inhabitants, lies on a creek branching from it. This country for a considerable distance from the sea is swampy and thickly wooded, and the first dry land is near the town of Gatto on the Benin river, which may be about thirty-five miles from the entrance of the creek. Benin trades in slaves and ivory. The number of blacks exported was at one time very considerable, but the unhealthiness of the climate reduced the trade with the English. The country inland to the northward, between Formosa and Ardrah, rises in a fine gentle ascent, commanding delightful prospects, and is said to be more healthy than the coast. The soil is fertile, and cotton, indigo, and other valuable productions, may be had in abundance.
* The streets of Benin are long and broad, so that it covers a considerable extent of ground. The kingdom extends twenty days' journey from north to south, and it claims sovereignty over Bonny and New Calabar. The trade is considerable, and is annually increasing. Many of the people on the shores and creeks are employed in the dry season in making salt, particularly in what is called the Brasspan country, which takes its name from the utensils supplied from Europe for the manufacturing of this article by evaporation from sea-water. The salt and other articles are carried into the interior in large canoes built about Bonny; and Robertson mentions Boussa, on the Niger, as a great mart for this trade, and the place where the people from the seaward meet with the caravans from Barbary to exchange their merchandize.
** Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs of the Late Hugh Crow, of Liverpool (1830), pp. 189–190
# Joe Lewis (artist)

Joe Lewis (born 1953 in New York City) is a visual artist, photographer, musician, and art critic. He was dean of University of California, Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

## Quotes

* In the artist/theorist tradition of Robert Smithson, Joseph Nechvatal is a pioneer in the field of digital image making who challenges our perceptions of nature by altering conventional notions of space and time, gender, and self... Nechvatal successfully plunged into the depths where art, technology and theory meet.
** "Joseph Nechvatal at Universal Concepts Unlimited," in: Art in America Magazine, March 2003. pp.123-124.
* One of our core beliefs was that significant art could be made by anyone, anywhere and anytime. You didn’t have to live and work in New York City to be an artist. It was in line with the philosophy of Outsider art and movements for artistic "localism."
** Walter Robinson. "Joe Lewis: Clairvoynace" at artnet.com, 2015.
* I’d like to think I have somehow connected or tapped to our collective subconscious, but in a sense I am just pulling ideas off the morning news. The real challenge is to make art out of these bits and pieces of our reality. I am a third-generation artist raised in the ghetto who was classically educated. This had its assets and liabilities.
** Walter Robinson. "Joe Lewis: Clairvoynace" at artnet.com, 2015.
# Joe Okei-Odumakin

Dr. Josephine Obiajulu Okei-Odimakin is a Nigerian women's rights activist. She is the president of the human rights groups, Women Arise for Change Initiative and the Campaign for Democracy.

## Quotes

* Women generally speak the same language – silence, and breaking this culture is what a few women have tried to do. A lot of women are not empowered and they allow themselves to be used by politicians as cheer leaders. They bring them to clap at political rallies.
** Joe Okei-Odumakin speaking on women achievement.
* When there is justice, fairness and equity. When human rights are guaranteed and when the system works.
** Joe Okei-Odumakin speaking on the end of struggles in Nigeria.
* This is unacceptable! Nigeria is a democratic country under the law and not a dictatorship or banana republic.
** Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin speaks on the gradual shift of Nigeria towards a dictatorship.
* Freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of movement are some of the fundamental human rights granted to Nigerian citizens by the 1999 Constitution as amended... We, therefore, condemn the shooting of Sowore as barbaric and an infringement of his rights under the law.
** Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin commenting on the arrest of Sowore by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
* It is very, very important that in as much as we try to protect the rights of those who believe in same-sex marriage, we still have to let them understand the consequences in terms of the health hazards and all that, but, if it is their own choice, there is really nothing one can do about it.
** Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin answering a question in an interview about the legislation on same-sex marriage, on Channels TV.
* It is so obvious that the Nigerian society is not committed to the wellbeing of the girl child going by the spate of sexual violence on girl children in recent time and the high level of abandonment and threat to the education and health of the girl child.
** Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin speaks on the failure of the government to rescue the abducted Chibok girls.
* There is no country that can prosper if a quarter of its population is left behind. And the wellbeing of girls amounts to the wellbeing of the country.
** Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin speaks on securing schools for girls.
* Education still remains the quickest way to liberate a mind and no amount of talk can do this if we fail to educate the girl child. I also believe that laws protecting the girl child must not only be enacted but must also be enforced. And we must ensure compliance.
** "Education, only route to girl child’s liberation" - Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin emphasizing on the need for education in the country, especially for the girl child.
# Joe Namath

Joseph William Namath (born May 31, 1943), nicknamed Broadway Joe, is a former American football quarterback.

## Quotes

* A friend of mine used to call me Joey U for Unitas. I also admired Roberto Clemente. Those two were my heroes. I never watch a baseball game on TV unless Clemente or Rich Allen is playing. I always watch a game Bob Gibson is pitching.
** Quoted in "Sidelights on Sports" by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 24, 1969).
* Now, don't get me wrong. I like baseball. I played it when I was growing up — my hero was Roberto Clemente. But you have to be a die-hard fan for baseball. What are there — 162 games in baseball? (My wife once asked me: "When does the season start? When does it end?") I just can't keep interested over the long haul. I really don't get interested until it reaches the playoffs and the World Series.
** In "Home Runs vs. Touchdowns; Face it: Contact is a Major Attraction" by Namath, in The Santa Cruz Sentinel (September 9, 1990).
* I said, 'Whoa, wait a minute. You guys have been talking for two weeks now [meaning the Colts' fans and the media] and I'm tired of hearing it.' I said, 'I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.'
** Quoted in "He guaranteed it", ProFootballHOF.com (January 1, 2005).
* He had such a flair. He had such a grace. He was a gentleman. I remember a royal essence about him. He was just so graceful. I wouldn’t dare say that I had an arm like Clemente, [but] I used to catch like Roberto. I stepped into the box like Roberto. Tried to be like Roberto. He was my baseball hero. He was the first hero I had. Big time. I even have an autographed Roberto Clemente baseball at home.
** In "He’s One of a Kind: In football, as well as in life, Joe Namath stands alone" by Glenn Miller, in The Fort Myers News-Press (October 9, 2005).
* I have been a vegetarian for a few years. Fred Dryer of the Rams has been one for 10 years. It shows you don't need meat to play football.
** Quoted in "9 superstar athletes who don't eat meat" by Brian Merchant, MNN.com (March 5, 2013).