#them

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#depository #discretion #enlightened #enough #exercise

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#about #been #found #gave #had

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#camp #counselor #devotional #i #job

I'm a huge supporter of the military. I think they do an incredible job. So when I get invited to go out and sing for them, some of the best moments of my life. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#get #go #huge #i #i think

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#believer #between #dad #gap #good

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#believe #cards #crystal #i #need

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#brain #drawn #even #maps #them

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#design #figure #final #jeopardy #know

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#board #categories #hitchcock #jeopardy #jokes

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#being #come #love #more #once