Jim Harrison Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
-
Beauty is not just physical.
-
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
-
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
-
Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
-
I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
-
There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
-
One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
-
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
-
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
-
The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
-
One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
-
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
-
I have a very broad range of life experiences.
-
Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do.
-
I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
-
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
-
I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.
-
When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?
-
I have always loved watermelon and relish any opportunity to eat it, whether plain or diced up with feta and mint and tossed with a little olive oil. It makes me think of summertime. On set and at home, I try to always have a container of watermelon sprinkled with cinnamon because it elevates the flavor just a notch and makes it feel special.
-
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
-
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
-
Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
-
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
