J. R. Todd Quotes

I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

I guess we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.

What you invest your time in defines who you are.

I think we all agreed to take a bunch of Xanax at some point.

There's more to life then living, so hold on.

There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.

People in New York love having roof parties.

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

My business is the analytical framework.

The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.