#ene

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. ↗

— Beverly Jones

#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#beneficial #change #confuse #distortion #innovation

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#definitely #drains #energy #heat #out

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#christ #could #guys #i #irene

You know what you are getting into, but being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#definitely #drains #energy #getting #heat

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#does #face #find #good #happened

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#adequate #carries #consistent #does #flaw

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#beginning #black #came #certain #civil

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#hits #hotel #hotel room #i #i write