J. B. Jackson Quotes

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

J. B. Jackson

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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

Parker Stevenson
- Children
- Small
- Dad
I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

Zosia Mamet
- Me
- Mad
- Television
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

Adam DeVine
- Work
- Down
- Test
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

Gary Ackerman
- People
- Flying
- Saying
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Great
- Artist
- Poetry
Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.

Walter Kirn
- America
- Nothing
- Congress