Jim Harrison Quotes

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

Jim Harrison

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• It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Me
  • View

• Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • You
  • Water

• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Black

• There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Hard

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Like

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Heart
  • Better
  • Speak

• If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Character
  • Like
  • Trump

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Love
  • Want

• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Him
  • Agree
  • Few

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • America
  • Positive
  • Impact

• The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Future
  • House
  • Most

• Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

  

  Andrea Arnold
  • World

• We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Poetry