Tim Quotes

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

Let the story tell itself.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

Imagination is a killer.

I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

But in a story I can steal her soul.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.

No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend

We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

President Obama said that he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and basically made it Obamneycare.

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The world's problems make us think about who we are and where we stand, and how we measure up.

We have to go about our business. Certainly, we'd love to have Roger aboard. There's no doubt about it. We also understand his thought process, what he's going through to try to make this decision.

We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.

My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.

I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.