#ny

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#choose #feeling #few #few people #good

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#because #flaws #happy #i #i can

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#anything #anywhere #basis #consent #cooperation

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#age #any #anybody #book #highly

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#alone #anyway #because #being #being alone

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#areas #balance #because #being #extent

‎"Repeat that?" "It's National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Didn't you know?" "Somehow I missed the memo." "You mean, 'Somehow I missed the memo, arrr!'" "Precisely. Arr. So, Mrs. Jack... Er, is that still your name? Or, I tremble to ask, have you adopted a pirate identity?" "Arr, matey, of course I have! It's..." She pulled an eggplant from the grocery bag. "Captain Eggplantier." She needed to stop speaking the first words that popped into her mind. "Captain Eggplanteir." He sounded very doubtful. "That's right. A family name. It's Belgian. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#becky-jack #felix #funny #humor #family

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#ed #going #i #new #new york

Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#little-girl #notes #family