James Howard Kunstler Quotes
We're building our own New Jerusalem up the river. It's a world made by hand, now, one stone at a time, one board at a time, one hope at a time, one soul at a time.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
-
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
-
You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
-
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
-
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
-
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
-
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
-
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
-
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
-
I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
-
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
-
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
-
Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
-
I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
-
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
-
In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
-
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
-
If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
-
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
-
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.
-
We're building our own New Jerusalem up the river. It's a world made by hand, now, one stone at a time, one board at a time, one hope at a time, one soul at a time.
