#read

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#anything #basically #books #born #care

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#argue #hug #just #love #means

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#back #both #both sides #bread #buttered

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#because #car #crying #did #everything

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#learning #reading #experience

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US? ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#economic #globalization #influence #might #military

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#because #been #female #men #ready

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#culture #definition #i #i think #intellectuals

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#important stuff #kid #reading #really #stuff

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#also #commitment #courage #danger #day