#thou

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. ↗

— Norah Jones

#because #forget #go #i #loved

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#own #sick #thoughts #you #your

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. ↗

— Erica Jong

#also #being #cover #ever #fool

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. ↗

— Erica Jong

#cheaper #declining #i #i think #life

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#latin #less #small #thou #though

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#badly #beatnik #beatniks #good #got

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american idea #citizen #each #going #her

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here! ↗

— June Jordan

#because #berkeley #came #century #colors

I never thought a role model should be negative. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#model #negative #never #role #role model

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#book #same #solitary #thing #very