J. F. Stone Quotes

Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view.

When someone falls asleep on your chest, but the one really falling is you.

If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.

A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.

I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.

Smile sometimes: it won’t add years to your life, but it will add life to your years.

We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.

When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.

We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.

The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.

Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.

Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.

My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.

I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.

I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.

The people I look up to the most - politicians, actors, artists - are the people who manage to do a high-powered job while staying themselves. They aren't afraid to be nice.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.

I do put on a little make-up every day because it helps me feel put together. Mascara is essential.

I know that when you're a teenager - sometimes when you're an adult - what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. And a lot of the time, it's what makes you great.

The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.

The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.

Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in.

The importance of balance is huge but I think it is for everybody. It's a big issue for at least anyone that I talk to in any career.

People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.

I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

Coming to the end of a long shot is brutal so when it's just me, if I mess up I can be like "Sorry. I'm an idiot. Let's go again".

A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.

in religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.