Best 47 quotes of Jennifer Stone on MyQuotes

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

High school was great when it ended.

History repeats herself.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

Integrity pays, but not in cash.

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.