All Quotes

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
‐‐ Philip Roth

A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives will be a Jewish community that is stronger and more enduring for generations to come.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

A Jewish deli should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods, the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So, if it's a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it's not a Jewish delicatessen.
‐‐ David Sax

A Jewish food is one that is almost sanctified, either by its repeated use or use within the holidays or rituals. So food that may have not been Jewish at one point can become Jewish within the cultural context.
‐‐ Gil Marks

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
‐‐ Philip Roth

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

A job is a very healthy thing to do.
‐‐ David Soul

A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
‐‐ Dan Bucatinsky

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.
‐‐ Matthew Fox

A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.
‐‐ Marvin Olasky

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
‐‐ George Saunders

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'
‐‐ Jon Stewart

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
‐‐ Penn Jillette

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
‐‐ Max Eastman

A joke's a joke; you can either take it, or you can't.
‐‐ Brian Dunkleman

A joke's a very serious thing.
‐‐ Charles Churchill

A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
‐‐ Louise Penny

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
‐‐ Jesse James Garrett

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.'
‐‐ Christopher Poole

A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
‐‐ Vicky McClure

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
‐‐ Bill Kurtis

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.
‐‐ Alexandra Kerry

A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.
‐‐ Lucio Tan

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
‐‐ Lewis Hallam

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.
‐‐ Sarah Brightman

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.
‐‐ Samuel Alito

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.
‐‐ Paul Watford

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
‐‐ Georges Bataille

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
‐‐ Julius Wellhausen

A jug fills drop by drop.
‐‐ Buddha

A juicy chicken breast can be the perfect accompaniment to a classic Caesar salad or a club sandwich. It's also easy to cook, and can be as simple as dressing it with a few spices and popping in the oven.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
‐‐ Robert Frost

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
‐‐ Thomas Francis Meagher

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart

A justice is not like a law professor, who might say, 'This is my theory... and this is what I'm going to be faithful to and consistent with,' and in twenty years will look back and say, 'I had a consistent theory of the First Amendment as applied to a particular area.'
‐‐ John Roberts