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

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Always
  • Pictures

• I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• 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

• I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Done

• 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

• Staying grounded, eating healthy, doing yoga, staying out of the sun to protect my skin - I think that the daily decisions we make to protect our bodies are the best ways we can care for them.

  

  Christen Press
  • Sun
  • Daily
  • Yoga

• No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Time

• With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Lying
  • Politician
  • Evasion

• I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Write

• The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

  

  Alessandro Manzoni
  • Misfortune
  • Contrast
  • Tranquility

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

  

  Jim Harrison