J.P.R. Williams Quotes

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

Interior design is a business of trust.

The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.

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.

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

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

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.

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

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.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

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

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

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

It's cheaper to keep her.

You're still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

I love what I do, I love my job.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.