Jon Lester Quotes
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.
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I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
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No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.
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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
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We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.
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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
