Jimmy Carter Quotes

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

Jimmy Carter

• Boss
• Servant
• Shot

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Art
  • Criticism

• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
  • Write
  • Sketch

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!

  

  Valerie June
  • Voice
  • Stage
  • Sing

• To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Think
  • Know
  • Best

• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Country
  • Yes

• Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.

  

  Kate Williams
  • American
  • English
  • Stock

• I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.

  

  Larry Wall

• Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Improvement

• It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• People are afraid of everything.

  

  Jean-Francois Cope
  • People

• I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.

  

  Katie Taylor

• The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Shadow
  • Racism

• Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

  

  Arthur C. Brooks
  • Life
  • Free

• We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.

  

  John Kline
  • Money

• I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Life
  • She
  • Friend

• Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Money
  • Book
  • Together

• I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Boss
  • Servant
  • Shot