Jim Harrison Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
-
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
-
I try to do my best.
-
My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
-
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
-
But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
-
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
-
I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
-
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
-
I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
-
Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
-
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
-
Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.
-
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.Ask me a riddle and I reply,Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.
-
Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.
-
At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
-
There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
-
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
-
Throughout the country, we have proven that we have dignity. We were not afraid of water cannons and batons when they came. And some were not afraid of sniper bullets. Then across the country, we learnt what the Heavenly Hundred is. And then war came to our land, and the whole country faced it.
-
You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
-
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
-
Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.
-
I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
-
Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
