Jim Nabors Quotes

I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.

Jim Nabors

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• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Kid
  • Holidays

• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Free
  • Reading

• Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Up
  • Want
  • Ideas

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Literature
  • Missing
  • Japanese

• I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • America
  • Go
  • Switzerland

• I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Love
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Different
  • Important
  • Change

• My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Job
  • Summer
  • First

• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Children
  • Happiness

• When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • True
  • Sex

• God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Earth
  • Food

• So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Growing
  • Eye
  • Grapes

• The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • City
  • Now
  • British

• On climbs, there is a general way we manage fear. We look at things objectively, separating out perceived risk from real risk. You can really bring down the level of fear by knowing the real risks and setting aside the others. You also know that panicking just makes things worse.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Risk

• When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Friends
  • True
  • Know

• I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.'

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • People
  • Business
  • Power

• The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Music

• I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.

  

  Jim Nabors