J.M. Williams Quotes

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.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

The pure products of America go crazy

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

Support music every day because there isn’t a day music won’t be there for you!

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

I have to say accounting almost killed me.

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that.

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

People really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy. It's a really lovely feeling. It's kind of scary, but a good scary. It's a lovely position to be in.

Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?