#pa

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#dog #moon #patriotism #religion #strangers

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#child #everyone #responsible #slavery #who

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician. ↗

— Norah Jones

#course #film #i #i love #lessons

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body. ↗

— Norah Jones

#body #comes #i #i think #me

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#after #became #butcher #children #doubled

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#philosophy #survivor #change

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#accident #america #backgrounds #century #democratic

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#bonus #certain #companies #diversity #executive