R.J. Newman Quotes

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

When you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it.

The perfect man is someone you love who also loves you.

I changed my life today. What did you do?

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Visualize success, but don't believe your eyes.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

My first job with a network was General Hospital, and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.