JJ FIELD Quotes

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

Confusion is the first step toward clarity

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

Only the best are bullied.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

Fear is where the information is.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story.

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

Let my temptation be a book.

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.