J.S. Riley Quotes

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

I just make music based on what I believe.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.

He is not dead, he is just - away.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws

When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-

She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

I'm not really sure of anything. I have no personality or opinion on anything. I just sort of float around and lie to my dog.

I want to thank everyone for believing in me, even though I only have 27,000 Instagram followers.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.

For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

Patience is the First Lesson.

My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.

When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.