#ay

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ↗

— William James

#between #companionship #joyousness #life #need

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ↗

— William James

#falsehood #get #live #ready #today

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#government #like #weather #wrong

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it. ↗

— Joan Jett

#back #because #except #fun #get

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron. ↗

— LeBron James

#always #growing #growing up #struggle #up

We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites. ↗

— Joan Jett

#always #because #close #clubs #favorite

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#american #american actors #character #day #i

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini