Tim Quotes

Tim Quote of the day

Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.

Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

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

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Ben wore the same goofy smile as in the photo. Take that, new guy! I can make him happy too!

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by

You can make a day of any size.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.

Do you think heaven's like that?Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.

He kissed her for an eternity, which was fine, because heaven had eternities to burn. Then he kissed her for another.

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities

A thing may happen and be a total lie

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Stories can save us.

When you’re with a girl, it’s always best to act like you’re an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

A fallow mind is a field of discontent.

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind

That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

Don’t fear the future or regret the past but celebrate the present.

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

Being totally inclusive is essential for the outcome to possess any true value

You never know how the tough times you are going through today will inspire someone else tomorrow.

And while I may get hurt, disappointed, or frustrated […], my foundation doesn’t have to change.