Jim Fowler Quotes

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Jim Fowler

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• A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • May
  • Happy
  • Dream

• Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Me
  • Trouble

• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Age
  • You
  • Actor

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Woods

• That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Dream
  • Parents
  • Best

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Pretty
  • Years
  • Before

• The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

  

  Sally Field
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Deep

• For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nation

• I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Rules
  • Ethics
  • Legal

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Know
  • Brother
  • Lie

• The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Dream
  • Idea
  • Exciting

• …for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Men
  • Wife

• A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Justice

• I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.

  

  Brian Michael Bendis
  • People
  • Smart
  • Independent

• Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Political
  • Artist
  • Statement

• In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.

  

  William James
  • Real
  • Heaven
  • Darkness

• The development of a tree depends on where it is planted.

  

  Edward Joyner
  • Development
  • Depends
  • Planted

• Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • May
  • Free

• I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

  

  Jim Fowler