#aught

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#caught #egg #fire #full #into

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#learn #likewise #may #men #necessary

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#daughters #delight #done #planets #teach

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#everything #gymnastics #lessons #life #life lessons

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#always #better #enough #good #never

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#abuse #attacking #brutal #child #child abuse

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#because #billy #caught #cheating #children

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#audience #burst #directed #film #heard

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried