Jim Rash Quotes

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

Jim Rash

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• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry

• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • People
  • House
  • Myself

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Church
  • Singing
  • London

• For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Me
  • Temptation

• What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Movie
  • Shot
  • Iceberg

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Live
  • Money
  • Why

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you're connected to Spirit, or 'inspired,' if you will. When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Passion

• One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • You
  • Give
  • Steak

• When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • World

• Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Beautiful
  • Princess

• I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed... I'm telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Goals

• 25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Trying
  • Night

• The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Control
  • Government

• Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Brave
  • Fortune
  • Credit

• The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly between 1150 and 1250, must be shared between the officials of the royal Chancery, who framed new forms, and the royal judges, who either allowed them or quashed them.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Achievement
  • Judges
  • English Law

• If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

  

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Funny

• The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

  

  Jim Rash