J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.”
“Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they vote for you.”
“Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.”
Source: Deathless
“Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.”
“Just ten minutes, but everything was different now. He was different, the world was different. His father was nowhere in it. And with that, tears came to his eyes.”
Source: The Twelve
“Just ten minutes of exercise had significantly altered their dopamine circuits and increased their willpower. Yes, pedaling a couple miles on a stationary bike while reading the latest issue of People won’t solve all your problems, but for your brain, it’s a heckuva lot better than just sitting there, and it’s a great kick start to an upward spiral.”
Source: The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
“Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.”
“Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.”
Source: The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1
“Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.
- Leo”
“Just that. It is hard
in the radiance of this world to live
but we live.”
“Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.”
“Just that one word—sound—sent a strong answering pulse through her body. His tongue curled around syllables that weren’t there, like a promise. This is what you’ll get, if you just let me hear.”
Source: Sheltered
“Just that slightest bit of her attention sent liquid fire through his veins, and he wondered what it would feel like for her to watch him while he placed his hands on her body.
To let her touch him in return...
His skin buzzed violently at the thought.
Since first laying eyes on Miss Chadwick, he had been disturbed by his fierce attraction. She had gotten into his blood. The very depths of him. This girl who stared at him so candidly and made him yearn for the slide of her fingers over his skin despite what he knew would follow.
This gentle young woman who told him so guilelessly that she wanted him to claim her.”
Source: The Untouchable Earl
“Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you." - Bride”
Source: The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)
“Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft”
“Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.”
“Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.”
“Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.”
Source: City of Night
“Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.”
Source: The Stand
“Just the act of free-flow writing quieted my brain. It took the big ball of yarn and tangles, and somehow, a little corner of it began revealing order.”
Source: Naked
“Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.”
Source: The Interestings
“Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.”
“Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.”
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar models of behavior in the political life of the society—the democracy of the rich class is in fact a dictatorship for the poor one! In other words, the state is not of people and democracy is not for all.”
Source: Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
“Just the desire to play a mom, wanting to play someone actually closer to who I am and where I am in my life. People are used to seeing me play the single, hot girl, which has been fun, but at the same time, this role is more akin to my natural proclivities.”
“Just the dream of every aging has-been actress who slipped out in public is to work with a bunch of gay boys.”
“Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.”
“Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to stand firm. If we don't, I think within a year administration is pretty much going to dismantle American society as we've known it. I'm not sure that we're able to stop it from happening, but I don't think people should just roll over and passively watch it happen.”
“Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.”
“Just the fact that there's motion and sound, took me a long time on Walking Dead to get used to the fact that in television, characters don't have to say things. In comics, people have to say I feel this way, or I want to do this, and you can do so much with gesture and movement and facial expressions that you can do sometimes facial expression stuff in comics, but you can do so more if somebody can move around without actually speaking. That leads to a different style of writing between the two mediums.”
“Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.”
“Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.”
“Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Just the fact that you're working is good for you.”
“Just the feeling that emanated from her presence kept me happy – oh, what wind-blown passionate days those were; if we argued, we argued with equal intensity, as we loved, but it could never last the arguing; it was always destroyed by love.”
“Just the flutter of your hearts, the taste of your fear. Is that what you
meant?”
“Just the flutter of your hearts, the taste of your fear. Is that what you
meant?” - Skull”
“Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.”
“Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss says, "You're wife is a spy. Shoot her." In the real story, he just went back and did it, which would have been a short film. Therefore, I had to spend some time exploring what you would do.”
“Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.”
“Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.”
“Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.”
“Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.”
Source: Scar Tissue
“Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.”
“Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.”
“Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.”
Source: The Blue Cheer
“Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.”
“Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.”
“Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.”
“Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.”