Jim Harrison Quotes

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

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• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Elves are cool, man.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Elves

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

  Lance Ito
  • American
  • Day
  • Value

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Common
  • Intelligence

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Television

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Curiosity

• When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Work
  • Live
  • Children

• If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Like

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
  • Worth

• Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Key

• A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Balance

• Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • People
  • Period
  • Marketing

• If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.

  

  James Heywood

• 'We consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Attention

• What drew me to modeling was this idea of being independent.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Independent

• I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Job