Jim Quotes

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I was like, "You're not meeting me, I'm meeting you."

I do all the better bears.

I think [Winnie the Pooh] just looks at the world through honey-colored glasses, and everything is honey-fied and sweet for him, and that's not a bad outlook.

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.

I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

We need to realize that the promises that overflow our Bibles will overflow into our own lives only as we appropriate them through prayer.

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.

The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

We have a group of people now who think they own the state. Its disgusting.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

Deep fry that sucker! - Garfield

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.

Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.