#ton

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#business #cia #families #family #into

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#better #carlton #conversation #days #everyone

We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#consequences #created #different #different perspectives #experience

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#charlton #hiding #i #jack #my time

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#boss #charlton #game #having #jack

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#i #job #me #offer #pay

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?' ↗

— Davy Jones

#believer #bennett #daydream #ever #francisco

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#europe #hampton #i #lionel #out

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. ↗

— Erica Jong

#city #liquid #mirrors #once #solid