J.H. Lee Quotes

Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.

We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

She was born in the Objective case.

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

I'm little but I'm old.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

I always feel like, when you go into an audition, your best chance at success is to be as comfortable as you can be. It's generally more helpful for me to just be confident and comfortable.

Change is the very nature of nature.

I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.

The things we are attached to are no more than shadows of the past.

The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao.

The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and educate ourselves on our potential.

In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.

They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.