#wit

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#benefit #characters #draw #function #functioning

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#know #oath #stand #tell #took

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands. ↗

— Norah Jones

#how #i #know #piano #stand

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby. ↗

— Norah Jones

#bank #calling #cool #could #i

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

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds. ↗

— Star Jones

#know #lost #nine #now and then #period

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

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. ↗

— Eason Jordan

#information #innocent #innocent people #journalistic #killed

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#bad thing #entertaining #framework #fun #gambling

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing. ↗

— Stanley Jordan

#action #buzzing #i #like #low