Jim Henson Quotes

I think my own strengths are in television production.

Jim Henson

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• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Much

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Very

• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Bold
  • Paper

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Parents
  • Will
  • Utterly

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Myself
  • Risk
  • Doing

• We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Like
  • Always
  • Humour

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • America
  • You
  • See

• You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Women
  • Freedom

• You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • World
  • Why
  • Stupid

• I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Things
  • Wrong
  • Vengeance

• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  

  George Devol
  • Men
  • Blow
  • Alive

• I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Organization

• Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it's a tiny way, makes me happy to no end. It gets me up in the morning and softens a lot of the blows I get.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Hate

• I think my own strengths are in television production.

  

  Jim Henson