J.J. Brown Quotes

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

I use the Internet for what it's for: to learn.

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

People are trading distance for dollars.

There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

Be quick to take advantage of an advantage.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

Don't look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit

When you touch me, good God.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

Never, under any conditions allow circumstances to determine your reality.

Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

It's not over until I (you) win.

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.

If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

I'm constantly searching for ways to do better because I believe life is an evolution. It's not about reaching an end goal and hanging up your hat...It's about continually growing.