#sm

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#criticism #friend #hard #honest #particularly

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.' ↗

— Quincy Jones

#daddy #day #done #every #every day

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#communism #english #form #government #king

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#development #poverty #terrorism #upheaval

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#automatically #common #make #military #movies

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#i #only #political #political world #position

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#home town #house #movie #remote #small

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dumb #ever #guy #guys #hardly