List of Topics starting with [J]

We went into the lunchroom and then the monk read something for twenty minutes while we ate our lunch - sour apple cider and lentil ...

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, ...

There are a lot of people who think celebrities shouldn't complain, that the photography is just a price to pay for having this career. I ...

Never forget to leave your footprint of love on the surface of this loving universe.

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

I hope I won't be eternally damned for that, but then again I've warranted damnation for so much else that one atrocity, more or less, ...

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

I Will Follow AnyoneAnd Ask EveryoneTo Stand Together As One Civilisation Against Terrorism

I think I'm like a free spirit.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - ...

Some nights, we were a city of two.

Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.

People like Josh Bennett and I don't get perfect. Most of the time, we don't even get remotely tolerable. And that's why it scares me. ...

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

One week. Sex, food, us, and then we get back to reality.

When he left for his date, he was late

It is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism.

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of ...

The hour-long drive to Akureyri didn't take him long.

Look at this world! So vast! So wide! Huge masses of land spread across it; multitudes of green and brown islands dotted the blue expanse ...

I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.

I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with ...

I would always think the worst of people and it would keep me from them because I couldn't accept myself.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

Two humans and a betrayer. They had taken his past, shattered his mind, and imprisoned him in a living hell. Worst of all they had ...

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and ...

John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the ...

No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ...

I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just ...

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration. When I was ...

There is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way and create music ...

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

The religious situation of our people is very unstable. This is because of the lack of religious teachers and other dedicated people. As a result ...

It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by ...

Corporations aren't people. People are people!

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat ...

It is good to be sitting some placein public at 2:30 in the afternoonwithout getting the flesh ripped fromyour bones.

Pastor of the Warsaw Baptist Church, Dr. Peters was tall, gaunt, and pale, with a weak damp smile and cold damp palms: shaking his hand ...

I used to write at night. I was teaching school, and I was married, and had to do all the things that one does when ...

The small sands in that waste was all there was for the wind to move and it moved with a constant migratory seething upon itself. ...

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

It's more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.

There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part ...

It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And ...

I want no blood from younot until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.

A few seconds later, her reply came in. WTF an A! I blinked, sure I was misreading. But no, the letters didn't change.Me: Nana, do ...

You have to be loyal and true to one another, or your love will never last!

Dance you guys!" Thalia ordered. "You look stupid just standing there." I looked nervously at Annabeth, then at the groups of girls who were roaming ...

Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon ...

Blue eyes glittered. A shock of golden hair - gone. The dust in the air swirled, coalesced into a thorn-twisted Shaman tattoo.

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. ...

We are all accountable for our actions; their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others. Understanding the true meaning of accountability ...

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.

Jason Dean Colbertson, how'd you get so great?" There was silence. He kept his eyes closed and said, "You made me this way, Em.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art,

I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a ...

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the ...

Blunt tools are are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.

Artists don't often know much about writing ... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Your demons are always with you," Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. "Don't you understand that by now? Always with ...

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful ...

If my love must be a rodent, then shall I be anything but a rat?

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because ...

James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic.""Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to ...

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting ...

The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred ...

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having ...

Do village girls reply with love letters to the boys? No, village girls invented body and sign language.

If you're so bored, learn to knit. I'm not that good of a hobby.""If I ever learn to knit, the first thing I'll make is ...

Reality runs the risk of spoiling things, don't you think? The fantasy is often better. That's where the soul is fulfilled. Reality struggles to fulfil ...

Rule, she's always been an Archer. Putting a rock on her finger is just a formality. No one doubts how much you care about her, ...

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply ...

As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.

Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and ...

Problems are often stated in vague terms ... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

When your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a ...

Their own children.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?

His voice was hot-wired to my pussy. I

L.A. is such a big city, and there's so much going on. I mean, you know you're in L.A. when you can just hear sirens ...

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

Happiness in life is all about three things - something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Love is such a thing. You have knowledge of what it is, but it defies careful explication.""Love is a subtle concept," I admitted. "It's elusive, ...

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

When I'm home, I'm relaxed.

Come back with me, Aria. Be with me.

I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.