List of Topics starting with [J]

I've come to the conclusion that what superheroes might be - in their current incarnation, at least - is a symbol of American reluctance to ...

I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when ...

I am always looking up towards the sky; that is how I am.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as ...

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it ...

Survival's the thing, isn't it?

Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic ...

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 or 30 minutes. It's all ...

This couldn't be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled ...

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we ...

When we put music on, he kind of kicks in the belly, and it's cool to see how he's not even born yet, but he's ...

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. ...

He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you ...

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their ...

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows ...

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around, and you can throw him on the hip, and you get your ...

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw ...

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling ...

Let the dogs bark, the wolves howl, the lightnings flash and the crows caw, you continue doing your job!

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock ...

Coming out of town - willingly as usual.

When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to ...

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards ...

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut ...

Being considered crazy by those who are still victims of cultural conditioning is a compliment

From the late Joe Aldrich: "Only wounded soldiers can serve in God's army.

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?

I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. ...

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have ...

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped ...

Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that person. He doesn't hate them. They've ...

No-one can put in his best performance unless he feels secure," Deming wrote,

I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, ...

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you're stupid.

You wanted to commit suicide and couldn't quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick. With no movie houses, concerts, bars, ...

You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. ...

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily ...

The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.

Tell me, Mitch," said Bertrand, reading my thoughts, "is there anyone on this train that you do not want to fuck?""I'm not crazy about the ...

Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't ...

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When ...

The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but they just as ...

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, ...

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? ...

The number of things he thought of saying all at once nearly suffocated him.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become ...

Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?''Really? How adorable of me.

The instant is not in time time is in the instant.

There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.

Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.

When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

Hey there, Lissa Daniels," he said. He raised his Coke. "Would you like to say hello to your distant cousin, Jack?

Live with liberty, and your imagination can soar.

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

True love that lasts forever ... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married ...

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 ...

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara ... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at ...

It was not uncommon for his father to toss out the phrase "Jebem ti supu od klinova Isusovih!" which translated roughly as "Fuck the soup ...

He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, ...

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.

The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped ...

I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten ...

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.

So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there ...

Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and ...

If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it.

It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in ...

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I ...

Too lazy to be ambitious,I let the world take care of itself.Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.Why ...

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a ...

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.