Tim Quotes

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."

I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity.

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

The trouble with never is never, never works.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

I try to walk on the sunny side of the street.

Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

My wife assures me she didn't sleep with Tiger Woods, but how can I believe her?

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

Notice what no one else notices and you'll know what no one else knows.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid who loved comic books my whole life.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.

I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

I phoned the local ramblers club today and this bloke just went on and on.

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.

It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.

Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.