Jim C. Hines Quotes

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Jim C. Hines

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Liar
  • Candid

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Violence
  • Organization

• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Living
  • Duty

• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Long
  • Book

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Found

• How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Think
  • Know
  • See

• If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Different
  • She
  • Think

• It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Resistance
  • Beat
  • Teeth

• I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Party
  • Trust
  • Financial

• You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Men
  • Beginning

• You may all go to pot.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May

• Ich singe, wie der Vogel singtDer in den Zweigen wohnet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it-it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it-you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

  

  Ayn Rand

• Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Time
  • Business
  • Book

• Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Art

• As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Football

• I feel good. I wanted to go ahead and do everything, but the eyes were on me and told me not to. I just hit and took it easy, then did the running, which turned out OK.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Running
  • Eyes

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

  

  Jim C. Hines