J. F. Stone Quotes

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

One does not consider style, because style is.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

What does Donald Trump look like? He looks like a president.

Guys like me come along very seldom in the wrestling business. You can count 'em on a couple of fingers.

Sunday school don't make you cool forever...

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

Who says soul has only one colour?

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But I don't think it's alright to distort yourself.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.