Curious Quotations
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- "Acting provides the fulfillment
of never being fulfilled."
- Glenda Jackson (English actress and politician. 1936-)
- "The whole essence of learning lines
is to forget them so you can make them sound
like you thought of them that instant."
- Glenda Jackson
- "There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."
- William James (US philosopher and psychologist. 1842-1910), The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902).
- To endure the unendurable is true endurance.
- Japanese proverb
- "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
- Jerome K. Jerome (English humourist and playwright, 1859-1927)
- Dolph to Nelson: "Oh man, you kissed a girl?
Jimbo: "That is so gay."
- Jimbo Jones From The Simpsons, the cartoon creation of Matt Groening.
- "He who praises everybody, praises nobody."
- Samuel Johnson (English poet, critic and lexicogrpher. 1709-84)
- "It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
- Franklin P. Jones
- "It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive."
- Paul M. Jones and Walter de Leon Spoken by W.C. Fields in the film 'You're Telling Me' (1934).
- "The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more."
- Erica Mann Jong (American novelist and poet. 1942–) writing in 'How To Save Your Own Life' (1977).
- "The true leader is always led."
- Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist. 1875–1961)
- "Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
(But who will guard the gaurds?)
- Juvenal (Roman Satiric poet. 60-130 AD)
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