Jim Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

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

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

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.

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

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

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

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

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

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

People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities

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

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

I never liked making albums.

When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

None of us is smarter than all of us.

Why do we hide all the bullshit? Life is life. Why hide it?

Forget goals. Value the process.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.