CJ Quinn Quotes

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.

I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

The important is not what you believe but how you behave.

I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.

I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are religious. They just don't like the form it takes.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

It's easier to be healthy in Hawaii than it is, almost anywhere else I've lived. You spend a lot of time outside, in the ocean and on the beach.

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.

My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

She'd met Colin on a Monday.She'd kissed him on a Friday.Twelve years later.She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

Fine, but if you get yourself killed I reserve the right to flush your ashes down the toilet while I sing the theme from Titanic.

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Pay attention to me.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

You can't test courage cautiously.” (Annie Dillard)

He loved her.He wanted her.He needed her.And he needed her now.

You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one."-Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3)

His every movement was laced with a lethal combination of grace and strength, a lord among mere mortals. He was confident, arrogant, composed and unfazed by her best efforts to beguile him.

If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I ate them.

Caroline, do you value your neck?""Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?""Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.