All Quotes

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
‐‐ David Amram

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
‐‐ Nancy Willard

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.
‐‐ Susanna Clarke

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
‐‐ Edward P. Jones

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
‐‐ David Frum

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
‐‐ Harold Evans

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
‐‐ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
‐‐ Ellen Goodman

In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion.
‐‐ Gil Marks

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.
‐‐ Matisyahu

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
‐‐ Carl Spitteler

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.
‐‐ Tim Howard

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
‐‐ Anita Hill

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.
‐‐ Donald Trump

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
‐‐ Brandon Stanton

In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the concert, as we crossed through the parking lot, a guy in a brown Mercedes stopped in the middle of the street and got out. He came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled.
‐‐ Rene Russo

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.
‐‐ Olivia Newton-John

In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war in Afghanistan, my world changed suddenly - and profoundly. An article in 'Rolling Stone' magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm.
‐‐ Stanley A. McChrystal

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.
‐‐ Brian Chesky

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
‐‐ Aldo Leopold

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
‐‐ Travis Barker

In junior high, I was picked on for being the small skinny kid who enjoyed being in drama. All the drama kids, we were looked at like we were aliens, and people would call us names and say, you know, 'It's stupid to be in drama.' They would say a lot worse things, to be honest.
‐‐ Blake Jenner

In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
‐‐ Doreen Cronin

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.
‐‐ Carol W. Greider

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
‐‐ Orville Wright

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
‐‐ Henri Bergson

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
‐‐ John Linder

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
‐‐ Ezra Stiles

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
‐‐ Bill Gates

In Kansas I have a chess school.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
‐‐ Benedict Wong

In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.
‐‐ Tim Cope

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield.
‐‐ Scott Anderson

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
‐‐ Giles Foden

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

In Kevin's movies I would like to stay Jay.
‐‐ Jason Mewes

In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn't even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business.
‐‐ Tim Cope