Jim Harrison Quotes

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

Jim Harrison

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• 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.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Small
  • Loss

• I try to do my best.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Best
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Alone
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Day
  • Cancer

• I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• 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.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Inspiration
  • Shows
  • Comments

• The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • World
  • Movie
  • First

• Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Threat
  • Iran
  • Be Clear

• 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.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Fly
  • Bird

• 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.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Power
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • School
  • Gang

• There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

  

  Bill Pullman

• 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.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Great
  • Men
  • Lies

• We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

  

  Bryan Clay

• If I am angry, I am angry. If I am angry, then I have to be calm, and to be calm, I have to tell you to your face what I think about you. If we don't agree, then okay, 'Bye!' It's no problem.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Angry
  • Calm

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• People can't pay you to care. People can't teach you to care. But when you find something that you care about, you give it everything you've got. You never settle. And you are always pushing to learn and be better and support those around you. All I've tried to do in my career is care.

  

  David Droga
  • People
  • Career
  • Support

• I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better.

  

  Lucas Black
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Hate

• Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

  

  Jim Harrison