#ten

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#connection #does #fast #go #harm

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness. ↗

— Norah Jones

#always #audience #awkwardness #been #being

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#belt #commercials #funny #go #i

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#characters #come #either #hard #i

Politeness is the flower of humanity. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#humanity #politeness

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#enigma #material #material world #spiritual #spiritual world

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#attending #become #could #crafts #director

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#being #being content #content #declarations #established

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. ↗

— Carl Jung

#dangerous #easily #fruits #hang #humanity

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#dust #face #got #gut #i