Jim Harrison Quotes

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

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• I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Years
  • Texas

• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Dream
  • Boring
  • Ever

• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Today
  • Alone
  • Journey

• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Disney

• People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • She
  • Man

• If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Together
  • Day

• Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Made
  • Use
  • Riches

• If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Education
  • Serious

• You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Education
  • Control
  • Question

• I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
  • Grass

• I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Never
  • Even
  • Chef

• Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Why
  • Rich

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Money

• Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

  

  Blanche Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Road

• I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Live
  • Some People

• It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

  

  E. M. Broner
  • Home
  • Magic
  • Ritual

• Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Lust
  • Intense
  • Familiar

• Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Understanding
  • Aims
  • Nature Of The Mind

• I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

  

  Jim Harrison