They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
ILSA J. BICK Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a we...
ILSA J. BICK Raccoon." She saw Ellie put a hand to her mouth to cover the giggles and then looked back at Tom. "L...
ILSA J. BICK Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.
ILSA J. BICK We are having conversations about it. We're going to take a look at this and see if it makes sense f...
JOE BICK Nobody loves the game of baseball more than Pete Rose Jr.. If you could take his desire and his hear...
JOE BICK My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS People have to do what they want to do.
J MASCIS All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we...
J MASCIS I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J MASCIS It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J MASCIS I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t...
J MASCIS I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J MASCIS When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J MASCIS Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play reall...
J MASCIS I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J MASCIS The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to ...
J ALLARD We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the con...
J ALLARD Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J ALLARD Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J ALLARD When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
J ALLARD I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real har...
J ALLARD I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
J. COLE I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the mus...
J. COLE One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot ...
J. COLE I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
J. COLE College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess ...
J. COLE I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. ...
J. COLE I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser...
J. COLE I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never...
J. COLE I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in...
J. COLE Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. COLE I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to...
J. TILLMAN I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself a...
J. TILLMAN You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I us...
J. TILLMAN I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ...
J. TILLMAN My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of th...
J. TILLMAN I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually mean...
J. TILLMAN I play sad bastard music. For the money.
J. TILLMAN There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. TILLMAN Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angr...
J. TILLMAN I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's ...
J. TILLMAN With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ...
J. TILLMAN I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff...
J. TILLMAN When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that...
J. TILLMAN I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwrit...
J. TILLMAN Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. TILLMAN It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
J. TILLMAN My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. TILLMAN I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt...
J. COLE Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
JESSIE J I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? Wh...
JESSIE J Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my granda...
JESSIE J The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
JESSIE J People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw beca...
J. MERRIDEW There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it...
J. STERLING We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
J. YAHL Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obsti...
J. SWARTZ There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
J. MASAI A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways.
J. MCCABE I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
J. HELLER Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with ...
J. BARTLETT My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
J. BROTHERTON A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels o...
J. HAWES Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - ...
JESSIE J People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '...
J. COLE I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. ...
J. COLE I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who li...
JESSIE J My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. L...
J. COLE I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but t...
J. COLE I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that ...
J. COLE I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexual...
JESSIE J I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r...
J. COLE I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.
J. COLE As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm a...
J. COLE I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been t...
J. COLE When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a fi...
J. COLE It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make...
J. STERLING I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change a...
JESSIE J What are you up to?”

“Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied.

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J. LYNN If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and g...
JUICY J I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece,...
JESSIE J I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making somet...
J. COLE We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a com...
J ALLARD When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which...
JESSIE J I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids ...
J. COLE I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. COLE Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the ...
J. COLE I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where t...
J. COLE I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think...
JESSIE J