Jim Quotes

never underestimate your dumbness!!

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.

Be careful what you're good at doing, because you'll probably do a lot of it.

Everybody eats, everybody learns to cook

No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.

Polka will never die.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

Get some facts and come back and see me!

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me better and make me stay on my game and challenge me.

I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.

There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

If you’re tired of style, you are tired of life.

He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'