#lan

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#long #made #monologues #plays #prose

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#category #different #i #language #parents

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

#any #defined #described #down #far

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#around #away #balance #being #bit

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#another #clear #coming #conscience #daughters

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#ideas #more #more and more #music #older

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#down #i #look #lot #melancholy

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

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. ↗

— Jewel

#atlantic #back #birthdays #car #cause