Jimmy Smith Quotes
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
Quotes to Explore
-
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
-
I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
-
I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
-
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
-
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
-
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
-
That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
-
When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
-
My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.
-
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
-
I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
-
I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
-
The true dualism I take to be the contrast between two wills, one of which is felt as vital impulse (élan vital) and the other as vital control (frein vital).
-
For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets.
-
Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.
-
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
-
Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
-
We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
-
I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
-
Wrestling is a fraternity, and the boys will work their butts off for you as long as you respect them and don't lie. You can't anyone walk all over you or everybody will walk all over you.
-
The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.
-
Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
-
The real enemy of the Christian Right is not Americans United or the ACLU; it is themselves.
-
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
