Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.