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“Jo era feliç, però feliç és una paraula adulta. No cal preguntar-li a un nen si és feliç, ja es veu. O ho són o no ho són. Els adults parlen de ser feliços perquè en general no ho són. Parlar-ne és com intentar atrapar el vent. És molt més fàcil deixar-lo que t’encalci. Quant a això, no estic d’acord amb els filòsofs. Parlen de coses apassionants però ho fan sense passió. No parleu mai de felicitat amb un filòsof.”
Source: The Passion
“Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder as they parted for the day, each going a different way, each hugging her little warm turnover, and each trying to be cheerful in spite of wintry weather, hard work, and the unsatisfied desires of pleasure-loving youth.”
Source: Little Women
“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.”
Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…
“Jo, having watched the conversion in silence, her face caught between awe and curiosity, fidgeted when she saw Itsano scrutinising her. “Sorry. I don’t mean to stare. I ain’t met anyone like you before.”
“I am something of a rare breed in these parts. My ancestors shared a similar look when they saw your people for the first time. We thought you just as ugly.” Itsano winked to show he took no offense.”
Source: At the Dead of Dusk
“Jo ho chuka hai vo ho chuka hai
Jo boten hai vahi paten hai
Fir kyun bite pal pe pachhtaten hai
Jo bo rahe hai vahi payenge
Fir kyun aane bale pal se ghabrayenge
Fir kyun nahi jo pana hai vahi boten hai
Bite pal ki chinta ko chhodate hai
Aane bale pal ko Aaj ke pal se sjate hai
Jo ho chuka hai uspe muskurate hai
Jo ho raha hai uske sath chal padte hai”
“Jo ja havia comprès que sempre cal actuar a despit dels qui no s'ho mereixen, que cal sacrificar-se pels altres, àduch pels qui us trairan; que allò que compta és la propia noblesa, no la traïció dels altres.”
Source: Avui es parla de mi
“Jo meir main bainnes på geiten, dess beir trivest dæm.”
Source: Dokker kan flire
“Jo, men hva er omsorg? Hva er humant? Se på dette stedet; her tvinger vi folk som ikke vil leve, som koster staten millioner i utgifter hvert år, til å være i live. Noen har vært suicidale i flere år, og med god grunn, må leg legge til. De har gjort forferdelige ting. Men hver gang de endelig har klart å gjemme unna nok tabletter eller har et par minutter for seg selv med et skarpt verktøy lett tilgjengelig, braser noen inn til dem og sender dem på akuttpsykiatrisk. De får ikke lov til å dø. Er ikke det sprøtt? Vi tvinger folk til å leve et liv de ikke kan utholde. Er ikke det en form for tortur?”
Source: Omsorg
“Jo nahin hain
wohi Shiv hain.
--
जो नहीं हैं,
वही शिव हैं।
-
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That which is not,
is Shiva.”
Source: Malang, in pursuit of truth - Thoughts of Abhay Singh The IIT Baba
“Jo nevajaga nemaz daudz – kādreiz pavisam nieku. Lai uzrakstītu sev par prieku, dziesmiņu par prieku.”
“Jo Rehte thae saso mei wo Silsile Bangaye
Dil ki Galiyo mei Paheli Bangaye”
“Jo's heart sank. Five fresh wolves against one doe, who was unaware of their presence, and two half-dead bucks on the other side of the clearing. Jo glanced at the Cloud Mountain archer. He wasn't moving. One buck, then.
One buck. One bow. One quiver.
Jo was the last archer.”
Source: The Last Archer
“Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us."
"Let me tell you something 'bout those rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. My friend Bix was poor. Lord, he had to blow that trumpet ten hours a day just to put a little taste in the pot. Died poor, too. You saw him, Jo, with that plate on his chest. But that man wasn't soul broke.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.”
Source: Perfect Glass
“Jo…you’re not like me. If I get sent to hell, it’s because I’m supposed to go there. Not you."
"
Supposed to… Christopher, just because somebody made these rules doesn’t make them the right rules.”
Source: Dreams of Lethe
“Jo ældere Verden hun bliver af Aar,
Jo værre jo slæmmer' er Menniskens Kaar,
Vi haver alt levet det beste.”
Source: The Trumpet of Nordland
“Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.”
Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…
“Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.”
Source: LITTLE WOMEN SERIES – Complete Collection: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters
“Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.”
Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“Joan Collins told a reporter that she hasn't had plastic surgery; come on... she's had more tucks than a motel bedsheet!”
“Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.”
“Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.”
“Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.”
“Joan Durbeyfield always manged to find consolation somewhere: 'Well, as one of the genuine stock, she ought to make her way with 'en, if she plays her trump car aright. And if he don't marry her afore he will after. For that he's all afire wi' love for her any eye can see.'
'What's her trump card? Her d'Urberville blood, you mean?'
'No, stupid; her face - as 'twas mine.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Joan felt, so acutely, that the incurable problem with life was that nothing was ever in balance. That she could not have toddler Frances and fifth-grade Frances at the same time. She could not meet adult Frances and have a moment to hold baby Frances all at once. You could not have a little of everything you wanted.
Joan tried to remind herself that when Frances had been younger, she had held France's little hand every single chance she got. When Frances has been a baby, she had smelled hair sometimes for whole minutes at a time. She had been present for all of it. Didn't that mean that she would not grieve its loss, since she had voraciously and self-indulgently taken all of it that was offered?
No. It did not.
She still ached for every version of Frances.
But to love Frances was to be always saying goodbye to the girl Frances used to be and falling in love again with the girl Frances was becoming.
She missed every Frances she known. But oh, this Frances. This lanky, gangly, whip-smart Frances, with her ears pierced and a Cyndi Lauper T-shirt on, this Frances was a gift Joan would one day miss, too.”
Source: Atmosphere
“Joan felt that she would always be haunted and would always suffer that pang for Kells. She would never lie down in the peace and quiet of her home, wherever that might be, without picturing Kells, dark and forbidding and burdened, pacing some lonely cabin or riding a lonely trail or lying with his brooding face upturned to the lonely stars. Sooner or later he would meet his doom. It was inevitable. She pictured over that sinister scene of the dangling forms; but no — Kells would never end that way. Terrible as he was, he had not been born to be hanged. He might be murdered in his sleep, by one of that band of traitors who were traitors because in the nature of evil they had to be. But more likely some gambling-hell, with gold and life at stake, would see his last fight. These bandits stole gold and gambled among themselves and fought. And that fight which finished Kells must necessarily be a terrible one. She seemed to see into a lonely cabin where a log fire burned low and lamps flickered and blue smoke floated in veils and men lay prone on the floor — Kells, stark and bloody, and the giant Gulden, dead at last and more terrible in death, and on the rude table bags of gold and dull, shining heaps of gold, and scattered on the floor, like streams of sand and useless as sand, dust of gold — the Destroyer.
ZANE GREY. THE BORDER LEGION (Kindle Locations 4367-4376).”
Source: The Border Legion
“Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can’t be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it’s a thousand times better to be unhappy in your own way than to be happy in someone else’s.”
Source: The Unlit Lamp
“Joan Joyce is the real deal, a fierce competitor and one of the greatest athletes and coaches in sports history. Tony Renzoni’s moving tribute to Joan shows us why she is a champion in sports and in life.
—Billie Jean King, sports icon and equality pioneer
The story is all true. Joan Joyce was a tremendous pitcher, as talented as anyone who ever played. [responding to a newspaper account of his early 1960s match-ups against Joan Joyce]
—Ted Williams, Hall of Famer and Boston Red Sox great, December 30, 1999
Joan Joyce is truly the greatest female athlete in sports history. And a great coach as well. Tony Renzoni’s well-researched book is a touching tribute to this phenomenal athlete. I highly recommend this book!
—Bobby Valentine, former MLB player and manager
Quotes for Historic Connecticut Music Venues: From the Coliseum to the Shaboo:
I would like to thank Tony Renzoni for giving me the opportunity to write the foreword to his wonderful book. I highly recommend Connecticut Music Venues: From the Coliseum to Shaboo to music lovers everywhere!
—Felix Cavaliere, Legendary Hall of Famer (Young Rascals/Rascals, Solo)
As the promoter of the concerts in many of the music venues in this book, I hope you enjoy
living the special memories this book will give you.
—Jim Koplik, Live Nation president, Connecticut and Upstate New York
Tony Renzoni has captured the soul and spirit of decades of the Connecticut live music scene, from the wild and wooly perspective of the music venues that housed it. A great read!
—Christine Ohlman, the “Beehive Queen,” recording artist/songwriter
Tony Renzoni has written a very thoughtful and well-researched tribute to the artists of Connecticut, and we are proud to have Gene included among them.
—Lynne Pitney, wife of Gene Pitney
Our Alice Cooper band recorded the Billion Dollars Babies album in a mansion in Greenwich. Over the years, there have been many great musicians from Connecticut, and the local scene is rich with good music. Tony Renzoni’s book captures all of that and more. Sit back and enjoy the ride.
—Dennis Dunaway, hall of famer and co-founder of the Alice Cooper band.
Rock ’n’ Roll music fans from coast to coast will connect to events in this book. Strongly recommended!
—Judith Fisher Freed, estate of Alan Freed”
“Joan knew then that Donna was not an idiot. And the Beatles were not nonsense. And that there had always been a place for her in this world. She had just been walking past it over and over again, never noticing that there was an unmarked door, waiting for her to discover it.”
Source: Atmosphere
“Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.”
“Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.”
“Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.”
“Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.”
“Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.”
“Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.”
“Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very youthful, with ambitions and dreams. Anyway, she always says that she says "yes" to everything, because you never know which thing will click, or be thrilling.”
“Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.”
Source: Ranting Again
“Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner!”
“Joan spoke kindly, explaining patiently, as he always patiently explained things to her. “It’s like in that book you gave me, Jane Eyre. Jane says she isn’t a bird caught in a net. Instead she’s a human being with an independent will and that she has a treasure inside her that will keep her alive, no matter if anything bad happens.”
Source: Donor 23
“Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one has met only three times. One is attracted, yes; but one does not fall in love. A moment's reflection enabled him to diagnose his sensations correctly. This odd impulse to leap across the compartment and kiss Joan was not love. It was merely the natural desire of a good-hearted young man to be decently chummy with his species.”
Source: Something New: Or, Something Fresh
“Joana Ofélia lia todas as noites. Lia como quem procura alguma coisa. Lia como quem não sabe se vai ter outra oportunidade para ler.”
Source: Margarida Espantada
“Joanna had always known that there was quite a lot she didn't understand about the world, about the books, about her parents and their history. But when the physical and emotional boundaries of one's life were small, when one had walked every inch of one's allotted space many times over, it was easy to forget ignorance and feel a sort of mastery, instead. This house, that path, those books, that mountain; Joanna was used to being the expert and used to the safety that came with expertise.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Joanna had finally identified the terrorist who had kidnapped her son.”
Source: The Eagle's Covenant
“Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it—grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Joanna pivoted and bit back a groan of despair.Crockett Archer was even more handsome than she'd remembered. Somehow his rancher's clothing made him seem more approachable, more...within her reach. And if that wasn't the most ridiculous notion, she didn't know what was. A man with his looks and kind heart could have any woman he chose. He'd never settle for a shy, freckled redhead with an ex-outlaw for a father. She was everything the ideal preacher's wife was not.”
Source: Stealing the Preacher
“Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorising them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.”
“Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at how she gets into her own thoughts onto the screen in a very elegant and focused way. You have to see this.”
“Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.”