J.M. Williams Quotes

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Grief dares us to love once more.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Fashion is more about feel than science.

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

When I am alone I am happy.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.