#long

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#been #certain #certain extent #dead #endowed

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#begins #cast #conduct #eye #his

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. ↗

— Francis Jeffrey

#his #long #man #may #nothing

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#death #defeat #doors #drowning #emigration

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

— Elfriede Jelinek

#long #made #monologues #plays #prose

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

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

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#bread #come #denied #equality #faith

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#away #become #fall #flesh #gone

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#easiest #longest #me #notes