Jodi Picoult Quotes

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

I feel like a nuclear missile. Point me in that direction, I'll go.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy.

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

I live in a 9 million dollar turd.

We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.

I rushed us out of your parents' house because I didn't think I could manage two hours at the dinner table with everyone focused on Joe Loosey's joystick sitting in the refrigerator next to the applesauce.

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.