Jim Quotes

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities

Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

It's time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.

Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.

You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

The greater your command of brand loyalty, the less you must worry about price sensitivity and competitive promotions-and the less you must pay for marketing.

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.