Jimmy Buffett Quotes
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
Quotes to Explore
-
The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
-
When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
-
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
-
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
-
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
-
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
-
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
-
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
-
Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
-
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
-
I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
-
Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
-
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
-
I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
-
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
-
It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.
-
A leather jacket,” Kami said as he shrugged into it. “Aren’t you trying a little too hard to play into certain bad boy clichés?” “Nah”, said Jared. “You’re thinking of black leather. Black leather’s for bad boys. It’s all in the color. You wouldn’t think I was a bad boy if I was wearing a pink leather jacket.” “That’s true,” Kami said. “What I would think of you, I do not know. So what does brown leather mean, then?” “I’m going for manly,” Jared said. “Maybe a little rugged.” “It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.
-
'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
-
Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?
-
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
