Jim Harrison Quotes

When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

Jim Harrison

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• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Black
  • Running

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • My Life

• I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • World
  • Family
  • Shopping

• The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Business
  • Future
  • Profound

• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Men
  • Past
  • Got

• I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Why
  • May

• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Fall
  • Creative
  • Rain

• I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Yelling

• I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

  

  Camila Alves
  • American
  • Like
  • Now

• I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• ...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Power
  • Support
  • Party

• It's nowhere in here And its everywhere else that I don't wanna be, But I'm stuck here getting misty over you I'm alone on a bicycle for two.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Alone

• Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Cold

• I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • Critic

• At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

  

  Kalisha Buckhanon
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Rule
  • Altars Of God

• Perish that thought! No, never be it saidThat Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard.Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain!Conscience, avaunt! Richard ’s himself again!Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away!My soul ’s in arms, and eager for the fray.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Soul
  • Horse
  • Fate

• When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

  

  Jim Harrison