Jim Morris Quotes

I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Writing
  • Now
  • Plan

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Welcome

• Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Great
  • She
  • War

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Faith
  • Better
  • Place

• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Never
  • Fight

• Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Love
  • Oil

• We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • May
  • More
  • Riches

• If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Great
  • Positive

• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Great
  • True
  • Perfect

• But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Help

• When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Long
  • Petty

• I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Balance
  • Moment

• Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Opportunity
  • Fly
  • Celebrity

• I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

  

  Jim Morris
  • Fly