Jim Fowler Quotes

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

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• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Authority

• There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Nothing

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • See

• Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Self
  • Meditation

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Sleep
  • Films
  • Horror

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Train
  • General
  • Casualties

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Music
  • Struggle
  • Luck

• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fly

• When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.

  

  Chaz Bono

• Ah woe is me, through all my days Wisdom and wealth I both have got, And fame and name and great men's praise; But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

  

  H. C. Bunner
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Wealth

• It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Bad

• Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Pain
  • Animal
  • Plant

• Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

  

  Jim Fowler
  • Plant
  • Desert