#ene

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

Although I'm not shy when I'm singing, I am whenever I hear applause. I don't know if you've noticed, but I giggle a lot on-stage. That's shyness. And the stage manager is always telling me to take a longer bow whenever I come off-stage. I still haven't learnt to do that properly. I see other artistes milking the applause, but I can't quite do it. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#always #am #applause #bow #come

But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#am #feel #happened #i #i am

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#book #comes #determination #history #inevitably

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? ↗

— Steve Jobs

#another #bulb #computer #crude #day

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. ↗

— Alfred Jodl

#army #atone #behind #character #discipline

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#focus #happiest #i #something

I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#bad idea #bit #cringe #especially #everyone

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. ↗

— Charles Evers

#ever #happened #person #speaking #thing

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. ↗

— Jewel

#how #knows #mend #needle