Jimmy Buffett Quotes

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Jimmy Buffett

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• In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Find
  • Cooking

• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Everything
  • Canvas
  • Go

• The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Mind
  • End
  • Place

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Imperfection

• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Write
  • Room

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Myself
  • Watch
  • Objective

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Sunshine

• I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Me
  • Name

• Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Knows
  • Ifs