Jim Parsons Quotes

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

Jim Parsons

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• There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Myself
  • Moving
  • Race

• The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Time
  • Food
  • Talk

• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Children
  • Living
  • Adapt

• It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Character
  • Chicago
  • Fan

• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • American
  • Song
  • Past

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• People can be slave-ships in shoes.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Shoes

• Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Progress

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Alone
  • Wise

• Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Different
  • Relationship

• Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

  

  Pierre Dukan

• I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.

  

  Kerris Dorsey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mom

• I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Work
  • Running
  • Son

• It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • Heart
  • Commitment

• It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

  

  John Barrow

• I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.

  

  Emil Cioran

• Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Life
  • Important
  • Alone

• Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • May
  • Book

• We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People
  • Friends
  • Soul

• As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Rude