In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.
Jim Crace
Related I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those pe... KATHLEEN HANNA A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. T... BEN CARSON I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much abou... TOM STOPPARD Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to ... ANDY ROONEY That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot ... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't l... DONALD TRUMP They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because... BRUCE VILANCH I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear o... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who... TEDDY SHERINGHAM It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... ANNIE PARISSE It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I&... HALIMA ADEN I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get b... CONRAD HALL I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the ... KIRBY BLISS BLANTON Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w... FANNY BRICE There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're ... NOAM CHOMSKY The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I wa... AUDREY HEPBURN I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishi... CHAD HARBACH The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not onl... MATT GROENING A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks. KATE HUDSON I don't like to kick people when they're down. I like to kick people when they're up. JIMMY FALLON Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f... LAMAR ALEXANDER As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting u... TIA CARRERE You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those fi... VIN DIESEL I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to t... KATE O'MARA I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in... GARY COLEMAN Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attit... PRINCE CHARLES I don't watch most of the movies I'm in. Ever. They're like a bad relationship where, af... BEN FOSTER I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bit... JIM CRACE I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. MIKE TYSON I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, the... JUDY COLLINS People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they'... NIKKI GLASER Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't wan... SEAN YOUNG As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think... SANIA MIRZA Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically... MADISON SMARTT BELL People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the ... ED BEGLEY, JR. Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And yo... JASON MORAN Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like ac... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're e... HELEN REDDY There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don... BILL KELLER In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people supp... MALALA YOUSAFZAI Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continu... ANTHONY GEARY I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don... SUSAN SULLIVAN When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the... CASS ELLIOT I never say never, because I don't want to be one of those guys. BOB SEGER Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't ... MARY WESLEY Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up wh... LAUREN MYRACLE I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if th... ALEX CHIU Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that th... LANGHORNE SLIM Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one. CRAIG FERGUSON I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you kno... OLLY MURS I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I d... MEG WHITE I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don... DAN AYKROYD If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to... SOL HUROK You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. We... JOHNNY DAMON I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't thi... MINDY KALING Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do an... KAJA FOGLIO I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that. LACEY CHABERT I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why... KRISTIN HERSH We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their... GIULIANA RANCIC We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any ... CINDY SHERMAN You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they'r... ADAM GRANT It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Ni... CHRISTOPHER DARDEN I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. LIL WAYNE In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title... PILOU ASBAEK The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in... MARILYN MANSON When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that... VERONICA ROTH Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nu... BERTIE CARVEL Ontarians don't want to believe that they are small people. They want to believe that they'r... KATHLEEN WYNNE With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They... CLAIRE FOY God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what G... PAT ROBERTSON It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han... MITCH HEDBERG I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't h... ELFRIEDE JELINEK It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri... RACHEL WEISZ Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. TRAVIS BARKER I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens ... EDDIE IZZARD I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in. UTA HAGEN I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, b... JAMES DOBSON Oh, man, you won't hear me talking about the drudgery of making movies. I don't buy any of t... TILDA SWINTON You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a ma... VINCENT TAN People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they... MARY GAITSKILL I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of informatio... SAMANTHA BEE A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable. JOSEPH PRINCE I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've... PAUL WALKER Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they ... TONY GWYNN What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we'... BEN HOPKINS The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there ha... GRAYDON CARTER Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress peo... WILL ROGERS A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think... BRIAN SETZER People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's n... REMY MA After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can'... TRENT REZNOR For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't ha... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them... RANDY PAUSCH I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't li... ALAIN PROST I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, ... MICHAEL DOUGLAS
More Jim Crace
Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t... JIM CRACE When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle t... JIM CRACE I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast... JIM CRACE My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,... JIM CRACE The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're goin... JIM CRACE The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British co... JIM CRACE You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano. JIM CRACE There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest ... JIM CRACE I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. JIM CRACE I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. JIM CRACE If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who... JIM CRACE I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided... JIM CRACE For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese. JIM CRACE I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with ... JIM CRACE Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse... JIM CRACE Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliv... JIM CRACE As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked lan... JIM CRACE I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books. JIM CRACE I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out. JIM CRACE I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bit... JIM CRACE Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to pla... JIM CRACE Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscap... JIM CRACE The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come f... JIM CRACE Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengt... JIM CRACE Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach ... JIM CRACE I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, wi... JIM CRACE I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they a... JIM CRACE As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbow... JIM CRACE For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm&... JIM CRACE I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek... JIM CRACE When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. JIM MORRISON Make measurable progress in reasonable time. JIM ROHN Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. JIM MORRISON I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be... JIM DAVIS I stop short of being a workaholic. JIM DAVIS When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash. JIM DAVIS I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek. JIM DAVIS I can go everywhere and no one recognises me. JIM DAVIS I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea... JIM DAVIS Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing. JIM DAVIS I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories. JIM DAVIS My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh. JIM DAVIS I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi... JIM DAVIS Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting... JIM DAVIS You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind. JIM DAVIS The understatement is the English contribution to comedy. JIM DAVIS Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. JIM DAVIS There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari... JIM DAVIS Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum... JIM DAVIS You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran... JIM DAVIS Good morning is a contradiction of terms. JIM DAVIS Cats rule the world. JIM DAVIS As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma... JIM RAMSTAD I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th... JIM JARMUSCH Where's your will to be weird? JIM MORRISON Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. JIM ROHN Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. JIM MORRISON Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op... JIM MORRISON My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t... JIM CARREY Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se... JIM CARREY I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv... JIM CARREY There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like... JIM CARREY I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. JIM CARREY Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel... JIM CARREY Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased. JIM CARREY People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera... JIM CARREY Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain... JIM CARREY I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred... JIM CARREY I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w... JIM CARREY If you've got a talent, protect it. JIM CARREY My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. JIM CARREY I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ... JIM CARREY It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef... JIM CARREY Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl... JIM HENSON Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in t... JIM HENSON Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ... JIM HENSON There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ... JIM HENSON I think my own strengths are in television production. JIM HENSON It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor... JIM HENSON NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o... JIM HENSON No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t... JIM HENSON Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag... JIM HENSON I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. JIM HENSON Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o... JIM HENSON When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t... JIM HENSON At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s... JIM HENSON It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop... JIM HENSON I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ... JIM HENSON At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in... JIM HENSON When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them... JIM HENSON I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right. JIM HENSON But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to... JIM HENSON My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. JIM HENSON When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho... JIM HENSON The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. JIM HENSON Either you run the day or the day runs you. JIM ROHN The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. JIM ROHN Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. JIM ROHN There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe... JIM LEE I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien... JIM GARRISON I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul... JIM GARRISON The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ... JIM GARRISON This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s... JIM GARRISON I'm not in the business of harassing anybody. JIM GARRISON It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr... JIM GARRISON My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi... JIM GARRISON It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why. JIM GARRISON Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait... JIM GARRISON It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig... JIM GARRISON It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass... JIM GARRISON I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful. JIM GARRISON I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa... JIM GARRISON I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill. JIM MCGOVERN I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ... JIM MCGOVERN In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr... JIM MCGOVERN A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ... JIM MCGOVERN Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch... JIM MCGOVERN I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. JIM CARREY A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch. JIM BROWN My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l... JIM GAFFIGAN I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ... JIM CARREY Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their... JIM MORRISON There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. JIM ROHN I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami... JIM DRAIN Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p... JIM RAMSTAD I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ... JIM HIMES If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ... JIM ROHN I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it... JIM MORRISON Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip... JIM GERLACH You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river. JIM HARRISON The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o... JIM WEBB Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America... JIM BROWN Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. JIM COOPER Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At le... JIM ROHN I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d... JIM BROWN I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ... JIM BROWN Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management. JIM LOEHR Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror ar... JIM FERGUS I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A... JIM THOMPSON British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o... JIM STURGESS With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on ... JIM DOYLE I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and r... JIM BROADBENT During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper. JIM PATTISON The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d... JIM LEE The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we... JIM COSTA Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. JIM ROGERS Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual med... JIM GERLACH Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not... JIM RYUN I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around th... JIM CARREY Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun... JIM BUTCHER There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level ... JIM HIGHTOWER What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitioni... JIM HIGHTOWER In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police ... JIM RAMSTAD A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly... JIM LEHRER My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. JIM CARREY I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy... JIM LEHRER Success and money can really be quite blinding. JIM HARRISON Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. JIM BACKUS Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. JIM FOWLER There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives. JIM ROHN Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have ... JIM ROHN A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those wh... JIM ROHN The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not b... JIM ROHN In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of... JIM GERLACH It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ... JIM BISHOP There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney.... JIM BROWN There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors. JIM MORRISON A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and... JIM BUNNING An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not<... JIM BUTCHER We started Vector with the goal of creating a development platform that would foster and bolster the... JIM CANTRELL When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatev... JIM GAFFIGAN Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you ri... JIM STEINMAN Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in ou... JIM RYUN Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration. JIM ROHN By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. JIM ROHN Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applyin... JIM ROHN Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals JIM ROHN The book you don't read won't help. JIM ROHN Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. JIM ROHN Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you ... JIM ROHN Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. JIM ROHN Money is usually attracted, not pursued. JIM ROHN As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try ... JIM CUMMINGS A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the... JIM JARMUSCH The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. JIM ROHN Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's somethin... JIM ROHN If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. JIM ROHN Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. JIM MANZI Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or m... JIM HENSON I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always for... JIM MORRISON Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and... JIM BUTCHER The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol... JIM MORRISON [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. JIM HENSON Sleep is God. Go worship. JIM BUTCHER A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. ... JIM MORRISON People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about... JIM MORRISON I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who... JIM BUTCHER There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. JIM HENSON Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. JIM DAVIS Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. I... JIM BUTCHER