#me

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#asked #bach #been #cinema #executive

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching. ↗

— Ferguson Jenkins

#concentration #keys #mental #mental attitude #pitching

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#because #chance #forward #give #give me

I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#cd #doing #getting #how #i

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#falling #getting #nine #success is #ten

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#absolutely #america #best #country #direction

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. ↗

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

#goodness #ideas #live #medieval #over

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#could #enslaved #got #how #i

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#complicated #going #got #i #just