Jon Fishman Quotes
You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
Quotes to Explore
-
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
-
The future is much like the present, only longer.
-
Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
-
I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
-
I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
-
If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
-
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
-
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
-
There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
-
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
-
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
-
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
-
I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
-
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
-
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
-
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
-
We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
-
Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.
-
People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
-
I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.
-
When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'
-
You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
