#me

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. ↗

— Glynis Johns

#british #good #i #majority #picture

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #child #different #i #i think

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#internet #media #communication

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#again #bell #entered #few #fourth

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#found #hadn #i #kid #never

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. ↗

— John Pearson

#both #considered #expressed #many #more

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#blameless #done #i #lead #life

My teacher, Ben Johnston, was convinced that our tuning is responsible for much of our cultural psychology, the fact that we are so geared toward progress and action and violence and so little attuned to introspection, contentment, and acquiescence. Equal temperament could be described as the musical equivalent to eating a lot of red meat and processed sugars and watching violent action films. The music doesn't turn your attention inward, it makes you want to go out and work off your nervous energy on something. ↗

— Kyle Gann

#just-intonation #music #music-theory #equality

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it. ↗

— Celia Johnson

#caught #haven #her #i #may

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#amsterdam #canals #city #conditions #dutch