J. F. Stone Quotes

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

The worse that could happen has already happened to me.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I am big into aromatherapy.

I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

That balance of love for your work and love in your life is an interesting thing.

You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

Consumerism is our national religion.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way

I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I find the worst audition is the no audition.

What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Blondes do have more fun. But sometimes I look in the mirror and still feel like I'm wearing a wig.

Unless your goal is against the laws of God or society, you can achieve it.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Geography is destiny.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something.

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.