Jim Harrison Quotes

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Act

• It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Important
  • Home
  • American

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Generation

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Age
  • Me
  • Saying

• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Like
  • Special
  • Old

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

  

  George Catlin
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Heart
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Heart
  • Love

• Will the American Southwest become a giant Kosovo, a part of the nation separated from the rest by language, ethnicity, history and culture, to be reabsorbed in all but name by Mexico from whom we took these lands in the time of Jackson and Polk?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Heart