J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Jumping to conclusions, may be an indication of Borderline Personality Disorder...I thought you should know.”
“Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.”
“Jumping up and down is definitely sexy," Vayl assured me. "Would you like to do it two or three times right now before we get down to business?" Sterling and Cole groaned at the same time "Ewww!”
“Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.”
“Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.”
“Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.”
“Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: “¿Por qué hiciste eso?” Junaid dijo: “Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.”
“June 1, 2015
“I’m on the airplane going back home. Everyone is speaking English. It doesn’t feel real. Like I’m living a dream. I don’t feel it in my soul that I should be going home.”
Source: Citizen of the World : Part One: A Courageous Story of Volunteering Abroad, and Solo Backpack Travel in South America
“June 16, 2018
I feel lovely, but it’s just the drugs. But sometimes I think that maybe it isn’t just the drugs? Maybe these feelings are inside of us all along, and the drugs find them. Maybe that’s why some people choose to be junkies because they choose to believe that they’re worthy of happiness. And maybe some of us like the pain so much that we numb it in order for us to really understand it. To put these suicidal feelings to sleep and fall in love with the way we fall in love with the stars within us. I think self-destruction is the most addictive thing. There’s something very powerful and magical about it.”
Source: I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction
“June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.”
“June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?”
Source: All the President's Men
“June 1st, 1925, Mediterranean Sea.
The Empress Medina drifted on a sea of glass; a sea so calm and tranquil. The Greek sailors observed the magnificent passenger liner as their colleagues prepared to board. Little did they know that they were in attendance of one of the nautical mysteries of the twentieth century.”
Source: The Cruise
“June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once and for all prove that it's an ineffective law. Congress created that law and now Congress has to do something to correct it.”
“June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.”
“June 29th, 2010
Dear Mr-Too-Good-To-Write-Anyone-Back,
Fuck you, boat. I don't care if you didn't like that poem. That's no excuse for ignoring my letters. I will say this real slowly for you:
Write. Me. Back. You. Dick.
(from "For a Recently Discovered Shipwreck at the Bottom of Lake Michigan")”
Source: Mezzanines
“June [Hillary] had been doing all these things - the Himalayas and all the rest of it - so we had done things together for a long time, and, particularly as far as our Sherpas were concerned, we had a very sound, I think, philosophy. So that made it very easy for us to agree on what should be done.”
“June [Hillary] is a very strong influence in my life and particularly now in my ancient years there is no doubt at all: if there's a decision to be made, quite often June is the one who makes it.”
“June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.”
Source: Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme
“June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.”
“June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.”
“June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense of it all left here in his head. Now, a whole autumn, a white winter, a cool and greening spring to figure sums and totals of summer past. And if he should forget, the dandelion wine stood in the cellar, numbered huge for each and every day. He would go there often, stare straight into the sun until he could stare no more, then close his eyes and consider the burned spots, the fleeting scars left dancing on his warm eyelids; arranging, rearranging each fire and reflection until the pattern was clear...
So thinking, he slept.
And, sleeping, put an end to Summer, 1928.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“June ended up in the exact place she had hoped Mick Riva would save her from.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers;
In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,
In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,
Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.”
“June has always been wrong in her assumptions about love--so wrong, in fact, that at this point she should assume the opposite of what she believes and then be right for once in her life. The most ridiculous, looking back, was her assumption that true love bestowed a contentment that blotted out all else. June blamed her assumption on the books she had read from ages ten to sixteen, even though she could blame herself for not noticing what the books showed bore no resemblance to her firsthand experience of matrimony, her parents. June had figured the problems lay in her parents as human beings and not some defect of love. She hadn't yet learned that since love was the creation of two people, and people were always defective in one way or another, then the love itself was necessarily flawed. She knew that now, definitively.”
Source: Olympus, Texas
“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
Source: The Legend Trilogy Collection
“June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.”
Source: The book of Stillmeadow
“June is bustin' out all over.”
“June is gone. For the first time, the enormity of that hits me. Every muscle aches, my heart most of all. I am throbbing with how much I miss her. It hurts worse than anything. I don't know how I'm supposed to be expected to live day to day carrying this kind of pain. I don't know how I'm supposed to go out there, spread her ashes, and let her go.
I want to stop running away from everything.
I want to find something to run toward.”
Source: Saving June
“June is the beginning of summer, and on the 24th of
this month is Midsummer Day. The old legends tell us
that on Midsummer Night the fairies have their dances and revels.”
Source: What To Look For In Summer
“June is the gateway to summer.”
Source: A Sense of Seasons
“June is the month when the meadows are full of
flowers and blossoming grasses. Hedge-parsley and
chervil are both ni flower, together with many others
of their kind that bear sprayes in the shape of upside-
down umbrellas. They are sweet-scented in both leaf and blossom.”
Source: What To Look For In Summer
“June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.”
“June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.”
“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.”
“June, Moments are like cherries. They're meant to be relished, shared - not hoarded. You can clutch one terrible Moment or experience all the rest. Your life is slipping past in brilliant little bits, and I know it feels as though you're holding on to him, as though opening your hand is letting him slip away. [...] But when moments pass and crumble, they become seeds. They grow into new trees. And I promise you, he'll be in every new leaf. He will never be far from you. But if you don't let go of all that [he] did, you'll be haunted like the rest of them. You will miss the chance to live the life you want because you've accepted the one that's been passed down to you.”
Source: A Million Junes
“June: National PTSD Awareness Month
Suicide is an axe to a tree,
a commitment to a delusional freedom,
that you have not yet learned to be freed.
Living is a passage to an endless potential of tomorrow
that your worth is not bounded by the society's narrow values,
but you strike with the principles
that preserve your worthiness
to find your pathway to meet
the ultimate goal of happiness.” June 2023 by Tina Leung”
Source: I Face Forward
“June pressed against the skin like a secret.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“June Riva, that once tenderhearted dreamer, was gone.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“June's answer drifts up into the night air and echoes across the cityscape, one of millions of things happening in each of our lives, the small steps you take that are invisible to everyone else in the world. The steps that, nevertheless, matter the most.
Yes.
Always.
Forever.”
Source: Rebel
“June’s clients did not have the patience to deal with problems or the personal courage and energy to find solutions on their own. What they did have was an almost endless supply of capital. With that capital, June’s clients could hire people to solve any problem with minimal effort. That is what June did; she solved problems by the process of elimination.”
Source: Loves Deception
“June's the type that has to say no in order to say yes... She has to see the negatives first before she can see any of the positives. She has to tell you all the ways that something is going to go wrong and be terrible, and she says them like they're an absolute certainty, but that's a good sign. That means she's really considering it. She has to know exactly why she's scared before she can be brave.”
Source: Maybe This Time
“June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"”
“June.
Somehow the message had gone out to all the teachers that the last two weeks of school were the last opportunity to bury the students of Washington Irving junior High in work. Every other school in the country was getting ready for campouts and parties to celebrate the end of the year. But not us.”
“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)
“June
The sun is rich
And gladly pays
In golden hours,
Silver days,
And long green weeks
That never end.
School’s out. The time
Is ours to spend.
There’s Little League,
Hopscotch, the creek,
And, after supper,
Hide-and-seek.
The live-long light
Is like a dream,
and freckles come
Like flies to cream.”
Source: A Child's Calendar
“June verges. It shifts. And it holds two forces at once: the start of summer, the start of darkening.”
Source: Summer Solstice: An Essay
“June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what I want. Your beauty has drowned me, the core of me. You carry away with you a part of me reflected in you. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You are the woman I want to be. I see in you that part of me which is you. I feel compassion for your childish pride, for your trembling unsureness, your dramatization of events, your enhancing of the loves given to you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madness.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred.”
Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century