J.M. Williams Quotes

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.

I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep — The storm is in my soul.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal

When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.