#mast

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#assumes #bad #become #change #executive

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fear #govern #i #master #may

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#any #best #contestants #given #jeopardy

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#himself #master #only #taught

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. ↗

— Beverly Jones

#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#buried #good #good movies #i #like

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#become #belief #common #community #done

And if I had a clone of myself, I’d seriously consider giving up my crime fighting to settle down in a serious relationship. Even though it would be a same sex relationship, dating your own clone definitely isn’t gay. And even though you are related to yourself, dating your own clone is not incest either. It’s merely self-love. It’s more like masturbation mixed with conversation. How many times have you longed for a talking penis? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #masturbation #dating