Tim Quotes

When all our tears have reached the sea, part of you will live in me.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

Sometimes I think as an artist you tend to go toward the heartbreak and the sadness because those are the deepest and heaviest emotions you can pull out as an entertainer and as a singer.

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.

Better than I was, more than I am And all of this happen by taking your hand And who I am now is who I wanted to be And now that we're together I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes ma'am.

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.

I love my wife more than anything in the world, but boy when she had our babies, it quadrupled. There's just something about the connection.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

Chris Huhne is a remarkably successful and powerful minister

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

A true war story is never moral.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.