J. B. Jackson Quotes

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

J. B. Jackson

Quotes to Explore

On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

Ramez Naam
- People
- World
- Dream
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman
- Real
- Bad
- Artist
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

Viktor Orban
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

Callie Khouri
- Up
- Writing
- Character
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

Rachel Dratch
- Funny
- Weird
- Direction
I'm an artist at heart.

Lance Reddick
- Heart
- Artist