Jerome Quotes

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

All experience helps when you write.

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

I believe strongly that in order to compete against VOD, the Internet - any competition - exhibition has to achieve higher standards, more comfort in everything.

Exhibition is certainly the safest part of the cinema business, but it's very capital intensive.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

If he didn't want his opinion, why did he ask for it?

Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

It took more than science to make hope real.

True hope has no room for delusion.

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Time and space are awash here.

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

Don't make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.

This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.

When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.

Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.

What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

As long as you're still walking with the demons of hell! You'll never have the time to slow down to see the angels of heaven behind you.

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.

It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.

Buy a Bible!Your guide to eternal life!

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'! And you may become upset because he said no. But open up your eyes and look around at the things he said yes to.