J. Lynn Quotes

Memories and magic is what Christmas is all about.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

Every time I "get with the program"... somebody changes the channel.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your behavior

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

It's one of the most beautiful, inspiring places I've ever been to.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.