J. T. OWENS Quotes

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I keep my faith in God, man, and I just keep it moving.

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.

Get your popcorn ready, 'cause I'm gonna put on a show.

I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song, it's always really fun and exciting.

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

When I first started training for wrestling I kind of abandoned everything else.

Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

I've only been on one vacation ever. I just went to Acapulco before training camp.

When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

I think there is something bigger in store for me.

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

You should know how to do your job.

You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.