Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.
— Jean Craighead George
Messi and Ronaldo have dominated world football for a decade and, given the nature of football, at a certain point the baton will have to pass to someone else. I think Neymar has a great chance of filling that role.
— Jay-Jay Okocha
Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
— Jason Statham
It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.
— Jason Aaron
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
— Jaron Lanier
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
— Janos Bolyai
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
— Janine Benyus
My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.
— Jane Yolen
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
— Jane Smiley
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
— Jane Austen
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
— Jan Karon
That's human nature - the ups and downs.
— Jami Gertz
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
— James Whistler
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
— James Thurber
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
— James Taylor
I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
— James Roday
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
— Jayson Blair
I know that composers know my voice type and what songs will suit me. I have been able to mould my voice according to the nature of the song given to me, be it rock, pop or jazz.
— Javed Ali
Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?
— Jason Mraz
Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.
— Jasmila Zbanic
I'm an advocate of human nature.
We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.
— Janna Levin
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
— Janet Malcolm
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
— Jane Siberry
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
I think it's just my nature to stay on the outside so that I can understand and observe.
— Jamila Woods
The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.
— James Wolk
As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your vision is not going to be the same as the director's vision. It doesn't mean one is better or worse; it means they're different.
— James Watkins
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
— James Thomson
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
— James Stephens
Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.
— James Redfield
A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
— Jay Parini
I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.
— Jasper Carrott
As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.
— Jason Moran
I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
— Jarvis Cocker
People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.
— Jared Kushner
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
— Janet Echelman
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
— Jane Jacobs
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.
— Jamie Dornan
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
— James Whitcomb Riley
At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.
— James Turrell
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
— James St. James
