#nth

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#happier #i #i do #i feel #infinitely

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#beauty #earlier #ever #fade #fresh

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#enthusiasm #flunked #grade #i #just

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#band #enthusiastic #getting #good #good band

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ↗

— Derek Jeter

#four #inning #last #never #ninth

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#changed #direction #discovery #elevated #ever

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#away #came #going #got #had

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#going #i #initiative #month #peace

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#before #college #drop-out #dropped #even