J.M. Williams Quotes

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

I don't have time to be negative.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait.

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.

Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

Health requires healthy food.

I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.

I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.