Jargon
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
-- Jane Austen
- She calls a spade a delving instrument.
-- Rita Mae Brown
- Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.
-- Wendy Kaminer
- If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an ntelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
-- Margaret Mead
- I might know how to use thirth-four words where three might do, but that does not mean I don't know what I'mtalking about.
-- Ruth Shays
- You and I come by road, or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
-- Margaret Thatcher
Jazz
- The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.
-- Don Herold
- Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment.
-- Wanda Landowska
- Jazz is the music of the body.
-- Anais Nin
- Jazz may be a thrilling communion with the primitive soul; or it may be an ear-splitting bore.
-- Winthrop Sargeant
- Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
-- John Philip Sousa
- Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
-- Paul Whiteman
- Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
-- Paul Whiteman
Jealousy
- Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
-- Maya Angelou
- Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment.
-- Anon.
- Jealousy is ... a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart.
-- Michael Beer
- Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
-- Lord Byron
- The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
-- Dorothy Dix
- Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul
-- John Dryden
- Jealousy is the grave of affection.
-- Mary Baker Eddy
- What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes.
-- John Gay
- Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
-- Job E. Hedges
- There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
-- Washington Irving
- Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
-- Erica Jong
- jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
-- Ada Leverson
- It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
-- Clare Boothe Luce
- The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
-- H. L. Mencken
- Jealousy is the injured lover's hell.
-- John Milton
- I believe she would be jealous of a find day, if her husband praised it.
-- Hanna Moore
- jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
-- Iris Murdoch
- The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
-- Ruth Rendell
- Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
-- Helen Rowland
- To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
-- Francoise Sagan
- And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
-- William Shakespeare
- O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
-- William Shakespeare
- Jealousy is cruel as the grave.
-- Ths Shulamite, Song of Songs
- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-- H.G. Wells
- Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
-- Oscar Wilde
Jesting, Jokes
- Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
-- Jean de La Bruyère
- Jests that give pains are no jests.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
- Many a true word is spoken in jest.
-- English Proverb
- Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
-- William Lloyd
- I don't know jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers
- The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
-- Johann von Schiller
- Jesters do oft prove prophets.
-- William Shakespeare
Jobs
- Housekeeping ain't no joke.
-- Anon.
- The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
-- Anon.
- The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
-- Robert Frost
- I love work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me. The idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
- His weariness is that of the gladiator after the combat; his work was the whitewashing of a corner in a state official's office.
-- Franz Kafka
- Hamlet's experience simply could not have happened to a plumber.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life as a dog does with his master's chaise. Do what you love; know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- Early to rise and early to bed
Makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber
Journalism
- No news is good news.
-- Proverb
- Journalism is literature in a hurry.
-- Matthew Arnold
- Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by oververification.
-- James Gordon Bennett
- No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
-- Nicolas Bentley
- A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
-- G.K. Chesterton
- Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts.
-- Winston Churchill
- Journalism is organized gossip.
-- Edward Egglestone
- When there is good news, and it is news, we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.
-- Linda Ellerbee
- The first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
-- Linda Ellerbee
- Fact that is fact every day is not news; it's truth. We report news, not truth.
-- Linda Ellerbee
- Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter--aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take "no" with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occaisional calculated disregard for rules--are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.
-- Linda Ellerbee
- It isn't what they say anout you, it's what they whisper.
-- Errol Flynn
- In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
-- Ellen Goodman
- I wouldn't be here if there were no trouble. Trouble is news, and gathering news is my job.
-- Marguerite Higgins
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
-- Erwin Knoll
- A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
-- Max Lerner
- never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.
-- Tommy Losorda
- News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
-- Rose Macaulay
- Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.
-- Norman Mailler
- "SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN A CHIMNEY" The story to fit this sensational headline has not turned up.
-- J.B. Morton
- A reporter is a man who has renounced everything in life but the world, the flesh, and the Devil.
-- David Murray
- Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.
-- John O'Hara
- Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Sure I know where the press room is -- I just look for where they throw the dog meat.
-- Martina Navratilova
- Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
-- Gerald Priestland
- Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
-- Anna Quindlen
- A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism.
-- Burton Rascoe
- Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to.
-- Helen Swaffer
- Journalism -- an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
-- Rebecca West
- Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.
-- Oscar Wilde
- There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar Wilde
- In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
-- Frank Zappa
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