J. Yates Quotes

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

I am a work in progress.

If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!

Time travel is complicated, or so we think, since we have not yet managed to actually figure out how to do it.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

we are all made from the stars and connected to each other and the stars

What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don't become a survivor intact. Survival's cost is always loss.

With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss of their father.

i also say you can tell your true friends, by the ones who put a bucket by your bed when your drunk and going to be sick - (my quote - so proud)

You can't stand for Jesus without a Christ-like spirit.

a small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference

Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.

He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.

I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense.

Sprawled out on the front lawn/ looking up at an ordinary sky/ it could fall on me and some how be/ the day I didn't die.

Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.

Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.

when i am depressed i never think i will be happy.when i am happy i never think i will be depressed2015

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn

Tears dont show in rain but you feel them

Troubles are God setting the stage for greater blessings in your life.

..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.

some times it takes just one person to believe in you to make your dreams come true, But if you don't have the one person, Be the one person and believe in yourself

He flexed his fingers and fought the urge to put his hand on her stomach. It was a possessivegesture, and he felt a little bit possessive

Tupperware? I don’t know. That’s what my mom did.”“Well, my mom had to bring bigger containers for food when the family ate outdoors. But she usedthis when she and Dad . . .

She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.

Kelsey laughed and the sound moved through him, made the hairs on his arms stand up, made hisheart beat faster

I do not like think of them as dead, just alive in another time, they are alive in that time just as we are in this time."- Rose

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.