Jim Quotes

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

It's a wonderful life and I love it.

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

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.

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

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

When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

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

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

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.

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.

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.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.