J.D. Young Quotes

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.

You can't rely just on talent to win.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

A prince indebted is a fortune made.

Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Aging and death is what happens to everybody.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.

...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.

Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

Mixtapes, it's for everyone and you throw them in the trash quickly. While an album is an object that only your real fans take the trouble to buy and know you have prepared something special.

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

It is better to burn out then fade away

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

The purpose creates the machine.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

We just have to be ourselves.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.