J. R. Todd Quotes

Hope gives the heart wings; the soul, an anchor.

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

All of us can meet God's high expectations.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he's at a high point right now.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

I think I’m an alright twitterer.

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

I spend money as if I had it.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.

It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel.

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

My base will show up in earthquakes.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.