J.J. Brown Quotes

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

As president, Clinton will continue to oppose TPP until it dies.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.

Mayors are judged by results.

Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

I Believe in Miracles and the Power of the Individual to make a positive difference in the world.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

I grill, therefore I am.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.