List of Topics starting with [J]

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New ...

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like ...

To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, ...

She knew, even in marriage, if you advanced too far to please the other person it let them edge away and you ended up always ...

All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, ...

I didn't want to kill girls ... even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they ...

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

Dear Girls Across the Globe,Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in ...

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was ...

You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride.Max's Voice

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. ...

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies ...

I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury ...

A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They ...

Axonn sighed. "Just like the good old days," he said. "Now I remember why I hated them so much.

When there is talk about the best point guards, sometimes they dont talk about me. But that is not my main motivation. They can talk ...

I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me ...

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the ...

Find joy and gratitude in today,make every day in life a holiday.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God ...

You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a ...

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.

For the murder of Jest, the court joker of Hearts, I sentence this man to death.' She spoke without feeling, unburdened by love or dreams ...

Poles had a dark joke in 1944, about a bird which falls out of the sky into a cowpat, to be rescued by a cat; ...

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work ...

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death.- Jean-Claude

A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.

The problem with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar, so you may have to resurrender your life fifty times a ...

Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it ...

My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

Jesus didn't call us to merely make a decision for him. He doesn't need our vote of approval. He doesn't want deciders. He wants disciples ...

Never judge a book by its cover like never judge or underestimate a person on the outside." -Kate

If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to ...

If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a ...

You deserve every mountain falling. You deserve every ocean reaching. You deserve all creation crying out your worth.You deserve all of Heaven singing. You deserve ...

June was white. I see the fields white with daisies, and white with dresses; and tennis courts marked with white. Then there was wind and ...

Every girl needs to make an entrance. It's part of her signature. My hot pink high heels hit the sidewalk and I straightened. My blue ...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His ...

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent ...

There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to ...

I'll take my alkaloid diuretics wherever I can get them. If there isn't a 7-11 in the vicinity, a Winchell's donut shop is Plan B. ...

If I'm nominated [for Grammy] I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a ...

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He ...

House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have ...

When praying for the Lord's will about something questionable, don't give up if you don't receive clear leading after one prayer; just keep on praying ...

Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And ...

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord comforts His people and will have compassion on His ...

I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever ...

The Japanese island of Okunoshima, also called "Rabbit Island" after the many furry inhabitants who live there, was once home to Japan's poison gas factories. ...

And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. ...

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at ...

Virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with ...

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to ...

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent ...

I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I grew up watching ...

My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a ...

I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is ...

The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal ...

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy ...

Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of ...

I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever ...

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that ...

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining ...

A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a ...

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my ...

Can I just sit here for a moment? Human contact, and all that. There's one thing you don't get much in Starfleet - a hug. ...

I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too ...

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with ...

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by ...

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed ...

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she ...

It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account ...

Can you say the following? Jesus is my Prophet. I've taken His yoke of Truth upon me. Jesus is my Priest. I rely on His ...

Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't ...

I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe ...

A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way ...

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

Eripuit coele fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis," or from Latin to English "He snatched the lightning from the skies and the scepter from the tyrants. Jacques Turgot

To me, I think it's this thing of everyone wanting to make Jesus the Son of God and Jesus the only way to God that ...