#jack

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#barn #build #carpenter #down #good

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#being #jackass #like #nothing #president

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#caught #got #hail #i #jackass

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#charlton #hiding #i #jack #my time

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#boss #charlton #game #having #jack

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

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. ↗

— Erica Jong

#authors #could #dust #i #icons

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#any #beautiful #buy #dollars #i

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#away #flies #horse #i #jack

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#daddy #damned #dear #following #generous